LORI SHOCKET Threadworks ART

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SYNCOPATION

2025

42.5" x 48" (108cm x 122cm) 

Cotton blend fabrics, pearl cotton thread and cotton batting. Hand stitched

Available for sale

 Created through an improvisational and inspired by the bold intuition of the Gee’s Bend quilters, Syncopation translates musical rhythm into stitched and painted cloth. The piece builds visual tempo through intentional interruptions, irregular cadence, and dynamic shifts in pattern and balance. 

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EQUILIBRIUM

2025

24" x 28" (51cm x 71cm) 

Cotton blend fabrics, pearl cotton thread and cotton batting. Hand stitched

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This composition is built from painted and raw fabrics joined quietly to preserve the smoothness and natural flow of the materials. There is no single focal point, only a steady rhythm and calm cohesion. The piece exists in a resting state, where motion slows, surfaces breathe, and connection is implied rather than declared.

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EMOTION IN MOTION

2025

 24" x 30" (60cm x 76cm) 

Cotton and cotton blend fabrics, hemp cord, pearl cotton thread and cotton batting.

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Emotion in Motion is a portrait of inner weather—unpredictable, vivid, and alive,capturing the way emotion travels through us, leaving pattern, rhythm, and light in its wake.

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THE LONG THREAD

2025

24" x 28" (51cm x 71cm)

Cotton blend fabrics, hemp cord, cotton thread & cotton batting. Hand stitched.

Available for sale

This piece was co-designed by the artist and her 99-year-old father, an artist in his own right and the source of much of her creative lineage. In the layered stripes and hand-stitched pathways, the work reflects the ongoing exchange between generations, the long thread that ties skill, curiosity, and color from parent to child.

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THE LONG THREAD

2025

24" x 28" (51cm x 71cm)

Cotton blend fabrics, hemp cord, cotton thread & cotton batting. Hand stitched.

Available for sale

This piece was co-designed by the artist and her 99-year-old father, an artist in his own right and the source of much of her creative lineage. In the layered stripes and hand-stitched pathways, the work reflects the ongoing exchange between generations, the long thread that ties skill, curiosity, and color from parent to child.

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THRESHOLD THEORY

2026

26.5" X 36.5" (67cm X 93cm) 

Cotton fabric, pearl cotton thread, hemp cording and cotton batting. Hand stitched.

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 Improvisational architecture becomes movement. Rectilinear corridors meet unplanned curves, suggesting transition, tension, and possibility. Hand-stitching bends the grid, shifting structure into flow while holding its balance. 

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IT TAKES A VILLAGE II

2025

27" x 27" (68cm x 68cm) 

Cotton blend fabrics, pearl cotton thread, hemp cord and cotton batting. 

Hand stitched

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 Tiny stitched scrolls represent people across many villages.
Hand stitching echoes the patterns in the found fabrics, visually linking each figure.
Together, they form one shared community, built stitch by stitch.

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NEGOTIATING THE DIVIDE

2026

26" x 37" (66cm x 94cm) 

Cotton and cotton blend fabrics, hemp cord, rope, twine, cotton thread and cotton batting. Hand stitched.

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This work explores the spaces that form between us — the lines we inherit, construct, and cross. Small thread figures drift across the grid, some reaching, some retreating, some suspended in hesitation. The piece asks a quiet but urgent question: What does it take to meet each other across the dividing lines of our lives? 

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WHERE THE LIGHT BREAKS

2025

27.5" x 32" (70cm x 81cm)

Cotton blend fabrics, hemp cord, cotton thread and cotton batting. Hand stitched

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Where the Light Breaks evokes a quiet tension between dark and light, with bold black and saffron creating a luminous contrast reminiscent of an Indian palette. 

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