With only an hour to chat, we felt we barely covered this fascinating topic. So we asked Susan back to tell us more. Susan also has a love of the history of stitchery and the women who stitched, so we expanded the conversations to speak on this subject as well. This article is a summary of the Stitch Chats in America Online s Fiber and Needle Art room on June 28 and 29, 1996. About Susan Susan is an historian and a fiber artist who has combined the interests into one to study women and their fiber work.
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Susan is working on a new article on Arizona women and their fibers. It covers about 3,000 years of Arizona women. Susan loves the tie of fibers that runs through all cultures and time periods. Research is done through oral histories, library time, museum time, reading, pondering whatever it takes. Sometimes travel goes with the research.