Claes Oldenburg's translation of ordinary objects into soft, erotically suggestive fabric sculptures readily comes to mind, but there is no Pop-style irony.

Something like this idea is suggested in a huge, air-filled fabric sculpture by Lewis deSoto, which depicts the reclining Buddha simultaneously dying and entering the energy stream of nirvana.

"Rise" consists of a lacquered red fabric sculpture of a seated female figure with 11 banners of hand-dyed red silk rising up from her back and onto the wall.

There are several varieties of fabric sculptures for robes:

He is best known for his Soundsuits: wearable fabric sculptures that are bright, whimsical, and other-worldly.

Also primitive in flavor are the quaint walking-fish fabric sculptures of Deborah Banyas of Ohio, whose imaginative and winsome creatures are exotically colored.

Dolores Zorreguieta's stuffed fabric sculptures covered with Band-Aids turn the body into cuts of meat.

The fabric sculpture that served as a chair was far too soft to sit in for long.

Any offhand remark about "bringing home the bacon" is likely to result in a deadpan fabric sculpture.

She is known for her fabric sculptures of outsized dresses.