Furnishing Fabric
1924 (designed)
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Furnishing fabric of woven silk and wool. With horizontal bands of black and white stripes, the narrow ones in a solid colour and the broader ones with small rectangular dots of the opposite colour. Warp threads of two kinds of white wool. Weft composed of various types of wool and two narrow bands of white silk. Varying textures across the fabric. The cut warp threads are hemmed.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Woven silk and wool |
| Brief description | Furnishing fabric of woven silk and wool, designed by Gunta Stölzl for Bauhaus, Germany, 1924. |
| Physical description | Furnishing fabric of woven silk and wool. With horizontal bands of black and white stripes, the narrow ones in a solid colour and the broader ones with small rectangular dots of the opposite colour. Warp threads of two kinds of white wool. Weft composed of various types of wool and two narrow bands of white silk. Varying textures across the fabric. The cut warp threads are hemmed. |
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| Object history | Designed and hand-woven by Gunta Stölzl at the weaving workshops at the Weimar Bauhaus in 1924. |
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| Accession number | CIRC.710-1967 |
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| Record created | June 24, 2009 |
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