Artworks

Katharine Rattray

Wool, silk, and nylon, woven, knitted, and oblique interlaced strips; fulled; shirred and crocheted with cotton thread through a technique known as "shirret" · 1991

Lissy Funk

Linen, plain weave; embroidered with linen, wool, silk, horsehair, hemp, and gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk in open buttonhole filling and stem stitches; laid work and couching · 1986

Bryde Glynn

Appliquéd, pieced and embroidered quilt; dyed plain and twill weave fabrics of wool, silk, cotton, linen, polyester, rayon, nylon and acrylic in single and multi-fiber blends; cotton and polyester embroidery threads · 1984

Martta Taipale

Linen, wool, silk, cotton, rayon, nylon and metal foil laminated in cellulose acetate film, plain weave of discontinuous wefts · 1960

Lenore Tawney

Linen, wool, silk, rayon, nylon and acetate, plain weave with supplementary brocading wefts · 1959

Eleanor Kluck

Polyester, wool, silk, plain weave; screen printed · 1956

Lenore Tawney

Cotton, wool, silk, wild silk, cotton (mercerized), cellulose acetate, rayon, and linen, plain weave with discontinuous wefts; cut and knotted warp fringe · 1956

Dorothy Liebes

Rayon, cotton, wool, silk, linen, metal foil laminated in cellulose acetate film, and metal foil laminated in cellulose film, twill weave · 1953

Mariska Karasz

Goat hair and cotton, weft-float faced satin weave; appliquéd in cotton, plain weave; embroidered with linen, sisal, wool, silk, cotton, nylon, rayon, and cellulose in buttonhole, long-armed cross and open Cretan stitches; couching · 1953

Dorothy Liebes

Cotton, wool, silk, rayon, sisal, metal strip encased in synthetic film, and PVC strips, plain weave · 1950

Dorothy Liebes

Cotton, paper strips, rayon, wool, silk, metal foil laminated in cellulose film, and cellulose acetate, combined twill weaves · 1949

Dorothy Liebes

Wool, silk, cotton, metal foil laminated in cellulose acetate film, cellulose acetate, and linen; twill weave · 1948

Dorothy Liebes

Wool, silk, viscose-rayon, metal strip laminated in cellulose acetate film and acetate, wool, metal strip laminated in cellulose acetate film, and wool, plain weave · 1947

Martta Taipale

Linen, wool, silk, rayon, cotton, metal-foil laminated in cellulose acetate film-wrapped cotton and rayon, metal-foil laminated in cellulose acetate film, and metal-foil-wrapped cotton, slit tapestry weave · 1944

Gunta Stölzl

Wool, silk, and cotton · 1932

Gunta Stölzl

Wool, silk, and cotton · 1926

Gunta Stölzl

Wool, silk, and cotton · 1925

Ernest Boiceau

Linen, wool, silk and gilt-strip on silk core; weft-float faced reversed twill weave; with areas of uncut pile formed by hooking; signature embroidered in "chain" stitches covered with wrapping yarns of gilt-strip on silk core and wool · 1920

Ida Ou Nadif

Wool and linen, plain weave; embroidered with wool, silk, cotton, and linen in chequered chain, double running, herringbone, threaded herringbone, pattern darning, satin, and stem stitches; silk-, cotton- and linen- wrapped cut tassels; top edge: linen and wool, weft twining; warp fringe wrapped with wool and embroidered with silk in compound cross stitches: lower edge: silk, centered weft twining; edged with cotton wrapped cord; silk and cotton wrapped cut tassels · 1900

William Morris

Wool, silk · 1879

Owen Jones, British

Woven wool, silk and cotton · 1868

Owen Carter Jones

Woven wool, silk and cotton · 1868

Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin

Linen, plain weave; appliquéd with medallion of silk, satin weave; appliquéd with padded linen, plain weave; embroidered with wool, silk, cotton and silk- wrapped cotton and silk and cotton tubular braided cord in satin, single satin, split, and stem stitches; laidwork and couching; glass eye and appliquéd with silk, plain weave with supplementary pile warps forming cut solid velvet; embroidered with silk and silk-wrapped cotton in paper padded satin stitches; couching · 1841

Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin

Linen, plain weave; appliquéd with medallion of silk, satin weave; appliquéd with padded linen, plain weave; embroidered with wool, silk, cotton and silk- wrapped cotton and silk and cotton tubular braided cord in satin, single satin, split, and stem stitches; laidwork and couching; glass eye and appliquéd with silk, plain weave with supplementary pile warps forming cut solid velvet; embroidered with silk and silk-wrapped cotton in paper padded satin stitches; couching · 1841