Artworks

Robert Rauschenberg

Enamel and oil on collaged polyester, found paper, and cotton on canvas · 1954

Dorothy Liebes

Cellulose film, silk, acetate, metal foil laminated in cellulose acetate film, polyester film, and synthetic film, plain weave · 1954

Dorothy Liebes

Linen, metal foil laminated in polyester film, and metal foil laminated in cellulose acetate film; plain weave · 1953

Amish

Cotton and polyester, plain weaves; pieced; backed; quilted with cotton thread · 1953

Mary Evans Landis

Linen, wild silk, wool, and polyester film, bands of plain weave, of double-faced complementary weft twill plain weaves with inner warps; warp fringe · 1951

Trude Guermonprez

Cotton, linen, rayon, metallized polyester film, and cellulose film, plain weave with plain interlacings of secondary binding warps and supplementary brocading wefts and self-patterning of secondary binding warp floats · 1950

Marianne Strengell

Cotton, rayon and metallic strip encased in polyester film, plain weave · 1950

Marianne Strengell

Nylon, cotton, rayon and metallic strip encased in polyester film, warp-float faced satin weave with supplementary patterning wefts and self-patterned by weft-float face areas of main-warp and ground weft floats · 1950

Mary Hammond Rodman

Nylon, rayon and metallic strip encased in polyester film, plain weave with supplementary patterning wefts and self-patterned by areas of weft-float faced twill weave · 1950

Mary Hammond Rodman

Nylon, cotton, metallic strip encased in polyester film, tied and free double cloth of plain weave backed by supplementary weft floats and plain weave self-patterned by areas of warp-float faced twill weave · 1950

Marianne Strengell

Linen, nylon, cotton, wool, modacrylic metallic strip encased in polyester film, weft-faced plain weave with supplementary wrapping wefts forming cut and uncut pile through a technique known as "Ghiordes knots;" knotted warp fringe · 1950

Robert D. Sailors

Cotton, wool, nylon, rayon, and metallic foil encased in polyester film, broken twill weave · 1950

Amish

Cotton, polyester, and rayon, plain and twill weaves; pieced; backed with cotton and polyester, plain weave; quilted with cotton thread · 1950

Charles Eames

Molded polyester reinforced with glass fibers, wire struts, and rubber shock mounts · 1950

Charles Eames

Glass fiber–reinforced polyester, zinc-plated steel · 1949

Robert D. Sailors

Rayon, cotton, and metallic foil encased in polyester film, plain weave · 1948

Robert D. Sailors

Rayon, metallic foil encased in polyester film, cotton, and acetate, plain weave · 1948

Charles Eames

Fiberglass-reinforced polyester, steel, birch, and rubber shockmounts · 1948

Charles Eames

Fiberglass-reinforced polyester, steel wire, and rubber shockmounts · 1948

Charles Eames

Fiberglass-reinforced polyester, steel tubing, rubber shockmounts, and plastic glides · 1948

Charles Eames

Fiberglass-reinforced polyester, steel rod, rubber shockmounts, and plastic glides · 1948

Dorothy Liebes

Silk, rayon, cotton, wool, metallized polyester film and metal strip, plain weave of paired warps with occasional shots of weft interlacing single warps in floats · 1947

Robert D. Sailors

Cotton, rayon, metallic foil encased in polyester film, and wool, broken twill weave · 1947

Robert D. Sailors

Rayon, cotton, and metallic foil encased in polyester film, broken twill weave · 1947