Textiles as an art material

The goal of my dissertation is to explore and present textiles as artistic material. I will briefly discuss the general presentation of the material and its history, and then discuss how it became a part of art. I will describe in more detail the connection between textiles and the art world, how textiles entered art, and their place in contemporary art. I will mention the great names of modern and contemporary artists who have known how to draw great potential from this vast material and its technical possibilities. Before textiles rose in the hierarchy of artistic materials, they trod an exciting path that still permeates the craft of art today. Since textiles allow us a wide range of techniques, I present the most important ones in one of the chapters. In doing so, I go into more detail about techniques such as embroidery, crochet, mending, sewing and painting, and textile printing. I briefly describe each technique and place it in the world of art, connecting it to contemporary artists who use this medium and material in their practice. I begin the second part of my thesis by presenting my own work, an artist's book. I was inspired by the feminist artist Louise Bourgeois, who toward the end of her life began combining goods in her illustrated books. The purpose of the author's work was to try out the techniques she described and achieve different results with them. I wanted to prove that textiles can be an equivalent material to a brush and a palette, that they can express everything we want to express with watercolors or photography, and that they offer us a lot of techniques that allow us a lot of expressionist expression