B.J. Adams
Tireless Tools
15" x 24", 15" x 15", 15" x 24"
Images for this triptych are items sold in hardware stores.
Although this piece, utilizing window screening, emphasizes tools, screws, nails, etc.,
true TIRELESS TOOLS are displayed in the center section.
Hardworking hands are the original tools.

Mary Beth Bellah
The House that Don Built
15" x 54"
Building the dream house involves a
heck of a lot more than tools, time and money.
This particular one started with Don.

Jeanne Benson
Tote with Name Tag and Blue Ribbon
15" x 14" x 6"
What event doesnąt have its own tote?
This one, constructed of hardware cloth, wire, and the
very durable, very yellow strap holds lots of good stuff.
Embellishment with name tag and blue ribbon counterbalances all that yellow.

Sara Brown
Unlocked (detail)
15" x 27"
Antique keys are used as a metaphor
for understanding complex relationships.

Ardyth Davis
Out of Gear
15" x 30"
In my recent work I have been shaping painted
and pleated silk into disc forms.
After finding these ring terminals in the
local hardware store, it seemed logical to turn my discs
into gears using the terminals as cogs on the
pleated muslin gears - partial gears floating in space.

N. Amanda Ford
Well Worn - Hard Wear
15" x 9.25", 15" x 20", 15" x 9.25", 15" x 11"
Well Worn- Hard Wear,
a series of four individual pieces,
uses quilted hand dyed elegant velvet and
well-worn old clothing to play with the “hardware” theme.

Lesly-Claire Greenberg
Threaded: The Turn of the Screw
Five separate 15" x 5"quilts
Metal threads faster wood to complete
a building project just as cotton threads
join the three layers of a quilt.
 

Catherine Kleeman
Toolchest: Left Pocket (shown); Toolchest: Top Drawer; Toolchest: Right Pocket
 15" x 10.5", 15" x 37", 15" x 10"
I can spend hours strolling the aisles of the
big box home improvement stores.
So much inspiration! So many resources!
“It’s for an art project” I tell the helpful clerks.
 

Dominie Nash
Still Life with Hardware
15"x15", 15"x15", 15"x15"
The tools of our trade are a constant presence
which we take for granted. It's interesting to take a
fresh look at their forms and their interactions with each other;
they become something of interest apart from their function.

Sue Pierce
Closed Circuit (detail)
15" x 24"
 Layers of translucent synthetic cloth are machined stitched
with a grid that traps rows of plastic bread bag tags.
Hand embroidery adds color and forms connections
between the isolated tags. It is all about connections and closure,
both literal and virtual.

Michele Vernon
Designed for Hard Wear
15" x 24"
The exposure to unusual materials at work as an interior designer
made me manipulate the "Hardware" theme somewhat in order
to employ some of the hard WEARing finishes from our
materials library. All of these finishes are extremely durable if installed correctly.
Needless to say, none of the manufacturers recommend their product for quilt making.

Sandra LH Woock
Nails: Patina
15" x 26"
Inspired by half finished products, nails spilling, and of course, bent nails,
results in abstract imagery of line and geometric shapes
and the challenge of combining as one visual unit
two materials that are opposite.
 

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