Sea snails
Date
1990-1999
Authors
Unidentified artist
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Abstract
Some seamstresses go beyond expertise in craft to artistry in design. This seamstress took a traditional design of sea snails to a new level of artistic distinction through her choice of colors and by adding contrasting swirls in the background layer of the snails.
Description
This item was part of an exhibition at the Avenir Museum of Design and Merchandising titled Kuna Molas: Sewn Stories and the Interplay of Tradition and Change, August 18, 2014-July 31, 2015.
Cotton, synthetics; 4 layers (black, orange, red, blue); reverse and direct appliqué.
Cotton, synthetics; 4 layers (black, orange, red, blue); reverse and direct appliqué.
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Molas -- Panama
Appliqué -- Panama
Embroidery -- Panama