Woodworking, Quilting and Gender: Quilting with Veneer

Quilt­ing and wood­work­ing are two crafts with history’s rooted in soci­etal gendered norms. I explore the overlap between these two crafts through parquetry, a wood­work­ing tech­nique utiliz­ing veneer to create geomet­ric patterns. In my work that using this tech­nique I refer­ence histor­i­cal quilts patterns. Through this work I explore my rela­tion­ship to both gender and craft. While demon­strat­ing my process of making veneer quilt blocks step by step I will discuss how histor­i­cally gendered crafts impact the rela­tion­ship between gender and work.