Claire Zeisler's Coil Series, free standing and free flowing structures, “declares fiber art is fine art.” The series continues Zeisler's exploration and appropriation of “off-loom knitting and wrapping techniques to create voluminous sculptures.” in addition to her enthusiasm for “about modern paintings by German Bauhaus luminaries from the 1920s and Indigenous and African masks, baskets, and textiles by unnamed artists. In the 1940s, her artistic practice began at the loom, where she made wall hangings inspired in part by the ancient textiles and baskets in her collection. In the 1960s, she abandoned the loom but not threads.”