Elaine Curtis

Melting Pot Jacket
Textile
Brief statement: Loose-fitting, fully lined jacket is multi-sized and has unisex appeal. It is acollage of ethnic textiles fromAfrica, Bali and South America, hand-dyed fabrics using Shiboritechniques, metallics, satin, rawsilk, trims, beads, machine embroidery, free-motionembroidery and is free-motionquilted with rayon, invisible, and metallic threads. One-of-a-kind glass buttons areused for embellishment, along with other glass beads and painted wood beads from Bali.