Keiko Kobayashi

1994 · 5 ring and spiral components: silk, plain weave with a circular warp in the shape of a ring; wefts from main ring become warps for smaller, secondary connected rings; attached silk, plain weave in a spiral, secured and stabilized with polyester and cotton threads and gilt-metal-strip wrapped rayon

Art Institute of Chicago

1990 · silk and cotton embroidery threads

110 × 70 × 40 cm (43 5/16 × 27 9/16 × 15 3/4 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

1988 · 26 scarves: silk, plain weave with supplementary patterning wefts

143.4 × 20 cm (56 7/16 × 7 7/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

1988 · Cotton, acrylic, and viscose-rayon and acrylic, areas of plain weaves and twill weaves with viscose-rayon, cellulose acetate, and viscose-rayon on cellulose film(?) supplementary patterning wefts; woven on a loom with a jacquard attachment

89.5 × 35.6 cm (35 1/4 × 14 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

1986 · Linen, single interlocking plain weave with discontinuous warps and wefts (sections of weaving joined by dovetailing around an inserted, scaffolding wefts)

64.6 × 49 cm (25 7/16 × 19 5/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

1984 · Four panels joined to form a poncho: silk, plain weave with supplementary patterning wefts

177.8 × 117.2 cm (70 × 46 1/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago