Artworks

Laura Foster Nicholson

Wool, cotton, cotton (mercerized), nylon, and acrylic, twill weave with supplementary brocading wefts · 1999

Gretchen Bellinger

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

Urszula Plewka-Schmidt

Wool, cotton, linen, rayon, nylon, acrylic, silk, and hemp, slit and single dovetailed tapestry weave with eccentric wefts and laced, overcast and wrapped outlining wefts · 1987

Helena Hernmarck

Wool, cotton, and linen, plain weave of discontinuous wefts with supplementary brocading wefts · 1986

Jolanta Owidzka

Sisal, wool, cotton, copper, and nylon, plain weave with supplementary patterning and brocading wefts · 1980

Else Regensteiner

Wool; knotting of double-flat knots terminating in long cut fringe over wool, cotton, silk, mohair, nylon, rayon, and polyester bouclé, plain weave; some bast fiber (jute) and cellophane strip ground weft loop pile (bouclé) and supplementary elements of wood and plant materials; both layers worked over wood branch · 1976

Dorothy Liebes

Vicose-rayon and wool, cotton, metal foil laminated in cellulose acetate film, nylon cellulose film, and cellulose fibers in cellulose film, plain weave, paired warps · 1958

Mariska Karasz

Silk, plain weave; appliquéd with cotton, rayon, silk, wool, and metal foil laminated in cellulose acetate film, plain weave with supplementary patterning wefts; cotton, rayon and silk, twill and plain weaves; embroidered with silk, linen, wool, cotton, jute, rayon and cellulose acetate in buttonhole, coral, zig-zag coral, feather, long-armed cross, open chain and stem stitches; laid work and couching · 1958

Marianne Strengell

Linen, wool, cotton, and rayon, weft-faced, weft band plain weave with supplementary wrapping wefts forming cut pile through a technique known as "Ghiordes Knots;" knotted warp fringe · 1956

Jack Lenor Larsen

Wool, cotton, linen, rayon, gold gilt strip wound around cotton fiber core, metallic strip encased in synthetic film, nylon, and polyethylene, plain weave with supplementary patterning warps · 1956

Jack Lenor Larsen

Wool, cotton, linen, rayon, metallic strip encased in synthetic film, nylon, gold gilt strip wound around a cotton fiber core, polyethylene, plain weave with supplementary patterning warps · 1956

Robert D. Sailors

Wool, cotton, rayon, and metallic foil encased in polyester film, plain weave · 1956

Robert D. Sailors

Fiberglass, wool, cotton, hemp, and rayon, plain weave · 1955

Mary Evans Landis

Silk, wool, cotton, wild silk, and rayon, stripes of weft chevron twill weave and of plain weave self-patterned by main warp and ground weft floats; openwork; warp fringe · 1951

Dorothy Liebes

Silk, rayon, wool, cotton, and metallic foil encased in synthetic film, twill weave with supplementary patterning wefts · 1951

Marianne Strengell

Nylon, wool, cotton and rayon, warp-float faced satin weave with supplementary patterning wefts and self-patterned by areas of ground weft floats · 1950

Marianne Strengell

Linen, wool, cotton, and jute, plain weave; knotted warp fringe · 1950

Marianne Strengell

Wool, cotton, linen, rayon, jute and nylon, weft-faced plain weave with weft bands of pile woven from woven fringe and chenille yarn ground wefts and by supplementary wrapping wefts forming cut pile through a technique known as "Ghiordes knots;" knotted warp fringe · 1950

Marianne Strengell

Linen, wool, cotton, and saran, weft-faced plain weave with supplementary wrapping wefts forming cut and uncut pile through a technique known as "Ghiordes knots;" knotted warp fringe · 1950

Dorothy Liebes

Wool, cotton, silk, and synthetic, plain and twill weaves; with uncut loops · 1950

Robert D. Sailors

Rayon, wool, cotton, and mohair, plain weave · 1950

Robert D. Sailors

Wool, cotton, acetate, and rayon, plain weave · 1950

Yvonne Palmer Pacanovsky Bobrowicz

Wool, cotton, rayon, silver colored metallic strip encased in gold colored synthetic film, broken, combined twill weave · 1949

Dorothy Liebes

Wool, cotton, silk, rayon, and metal laminated in cellulose film, combined twill weaves with bands of plain weave · 1949