"Mrs. Burns" #1

 

This is the first fabric collage portrait that I made ALMA LESCH note

1964    Fabric Collage Portrait

cotton blouse, shoe buttons, pearl buttons, hat pins, fan, and hand punched

cutwork lace on old linsey-woolsey

24 x 38 inches    white and black

Craft Horizons March-April 1965 cover photo

 

"Uncle Bob"    work jacket, piece of old quilt, straight razor case

gold rim spectacles, wood picture frame, and old billfold on linen

21 x 34 inches    blue, beige, and red

owned by Joseph Heil, New York City

1965

 

hooked rug stairway (destroyed) Alma Lesch in home stairway

Shepherdsville, KY 1965

March 1965

 

Alma Lesch with natural dyed yarn 1960 embroidered stitchery above fireplace mantel first shown in Kentucky State Fair. Between 1960-1964 Alma Lesch won 30 ribbons exhibiting at Kentucky State Fair, Louisville.

1965

 

Alma Lesch in her basement studio, umbrella armature becomes "Jezabel, That Woman" fabric portrait (photo above scroll to find). Ceramic kiln on left.

Craftsman in Studio

 

1965

note on photo by Alma Lesch  sold to Pricilla Bullitt

April 1965

The Cloth

 

1969  preparation for exhibition

J.B. Speed Art Museum, Louisville KY

1969

 

Basement Studio Shepherdsville, KY

Artist at Work

The Tobacco Setter, detail

Feed Sack Stitchery and collage applique series

Clowns

 

early 1960s

Feed Sack series DETAIL needlework

Kentucky State Fair 1960 entry Textiles

Kentucky State Fair debut 1960