Artworks · Gretchen Bellinger

Starry Night (Furnishing Fabric)

1989 · Wool, satin weave self-patterned by reversing of faces

269 × 147.8 cm (105 7/8 × 58 1/8 in.); Repeat: 19.6 × 17.7 cm (7 3/4 × 7 in.)

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Imperale (Furnishing Fabric)

1988 · Wool, cotton, rayon, and acrylic, plain weave with two-color supplementary pile warps forming uncut, solid "velvet"

61.5 × 61.1 cm (24 1/4 × 24 in.)

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Honeycomb (Furnishing Fabric)

1987 · Cotton, plain weave with secondary binding warps and supplementary patterning wefts

60.9 × 61 cm (24 × 24 in.); Repeat: 6.5 × 8 cm (2 5/8 × 3 1/8 in.)

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Murat (Furnishing Fabric)

1987 · Wool plain weave with supplementary patterning warps and wefts and self-patterned by main warp and ground weft floats

62.1 × 62.8 cm (24 3/8 × 24 3/4 in.); Repeat: 3.2 × 2.8 cm (91 1/4 × 1/8 in.)

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Wigwam (Furnishing Fabric)

1986 · Wool, plain weave

61 × 62.2 cm (24 × 24 1/2 in.); Repeat: 1 × 0.7 cm (3/8 × 1/4 in.)

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Can Can (Furnishing Fabric)

1986 · Cotton, stripes of plain weave with supplementary brocading wefts and plain gauze interlacing

62.2 × 62.2 cm (24 1/2 × 24 1/2 in.); Repeat: 2 × 2 cm (3/4 × 3/4 in.)

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Runabout (Furnishing Fabric)

1986 · Cotton twill weave self-patterned by reversing of faces

61.8 × 61.8 cm (24 3/8 × 24 3/8 in.)

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Diva (Furnishing Fabric)

1985 · Silk, satin weave self-patterned by reversing of faces; applied rhinestones

65.2 × 64.1 cm (25 5/8 × 25 1/4 in.) Repeat: 44.2 × 42.9-43.9 cm (17 3/8 × 16 7/8-17 in.) Weave repeat: 2 3/8 in. square

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Mazurka (Furnishing Fabric)

1983 · Silk, plain weave with supplementary patterning wefts; pleated

62.1 × 63.5 cm (24 3/8 × 25 in.)

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Isadora (Furnishing Fabric)

1981 · Silk, plain weave with supplementary wefts; pleated

58.5 × 60.4 cm (23 × 23 3/4 in.)

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Limousine Cloth (Furnishing Fabric)

1976 · Wool, warp-float faced twill weave; fulled

61.2 × 61.5 cm (24 1/8 × 24 1/4 in.)

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