Lotta Helleberg
By A Thread Blue, 2021
Repurposed vintage quilt, indigo dye, threads 26" x 26"
By a Thread Blue is part of a series of artwork originating from a tattered vintage courthouse step quilt. The blocks were separated, repaired, and over dyed, using natural dyes. They were then reassembled to create a new nine patch quilt. Each of the pieces have their own characteristics and color ways, and the handwork of the original makers is highly present and influential in the quilts’ reincarnation.
Lotta Helleberg
By a Thread Red, 2021
Repurposed vintage quilt, madder dye, threads 26" x 26"
By a Thread Red is part of a series of artwork originating from a tattered vintage courthouse step quilt. The blocks were separated, repaired, and over dyed, using natural dyes. They were then reassembled to create a new nine patch quilt. Each of the pieces have their own characteristics and color ways, and the handwork of the original makers is highly present and influential in the quilts’ reincarnation.
Lotta Helleberg
By a Thread Gold, 2021
Repurposed vintage quilt, goldenrod and fustic dye, threads 26" x 26"
By a Thread Gold is part of a series of artwork originating from a tattered vintage courthouse step quilt. The blocks were separated, repaired, and over dyed, using natural dyes. They were then reassembled to create a new nine patch quilt. Each of the pieces have their own characteristics and color ways, and the handwork of the original makers is highly present and influential in the quilts’ reincarnation.
Lotta Helleberg
Comfort, 2022
walnut dye and botanical contact prints on cotton and linen, machine pieced, hand quilted. 95" x 95"
Examining the meaning of heritage, tradition, and craft, by repurposing salvaged and naturally dyed materials, in an effort to elevate ordinary acts of making into expressions of beauty, utility, and art.
Lotta Helleberg
Safe keeping, 2022
Collage, botanical prints, leaf prints, wool, linen, and mixed paper. Hand and machine stitching. Silk woven spine. 8.5” x 7.5” x 2”
Artist book portraying plants and faraway places, using imagery, pigments, and remnants, while examining the meaning of memory, heritage and craft.
Lotta Helleberg
Safe keeping (detail), 2022
Collage, botanical prints, leaf prints, wool, linen, and mixed paper. Hand and machine stitching. Silk woven spine. 8.5” x 7.5” x 2”
Artist book portraying plants and faraway places, using imagery, pigments, and remnants, while examining the meaning of memory, heritage and craft.
Lotta Helleberg
Porcelain vine I, 2019
cotton canvas, silk applique, embroidery 75" x 55"
Lotta Helleberg
Porcelain vine II, 2019
botanical prints, cotton canvas, silk applique, embroidery 75" x 55"
Lotta Helleberg
Another Grandmother’s Flower Garden, 2022
botanical contact prints on wool and silk, vintage linen, hand stitched. 40” x 36”
By incorporating repurposed or salvaged materials while exploring traditional textile forms and techniques, I want to initiate discussions about heritage, purpose, and repair
