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Artworks
Rug Sample
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
Art Institute of Chicago
Sample (Upholstery Fabric)
Dorothy Liebes
Cotton, wool, and rayon, plain weave · 1950
Art Institute of Chicago
Sample (Window Blind)
Dorothy Liebes
Cotton, wool, silk, rayon, sisal, metal strip encased in synthetic film, and PVC strips, plain weave · 1950
Art Institute of Chicago
Sample (Up 142 M #1)
Robert D. Sailors
Cotton, wool, nylon, rayon, and metallic foil encased in polyester film, broken twill weave · 1950
Art Institute of Chicago
Sample (Drapery Fabric)
Dorothy Liebes
Cotton, wool, rayon, silk, and metal foil laminated in cellulose acetate film, bands of plain and twill weaves · 1949
Art Institute of Chicago
Geometric Composition
Mariska Karasz
Hemp, plain weave; embroidered with cotton, wool, linen, jute, rabbit hair, metal foil strips, and polyamide in Cretan, crossed back, eyelet, ladder and long-armed stitches · 1948
Art Institute of Chicago
Sample (Upholstery Fabric)
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
Art Institute of Chicago
Panel (Dr 100 V #2)
Robert D. Sailors
Cotton, wool, and rayon, and metallic foil encased in polyester film, plain weave with supplementary brocading wefts bound in plain interlacing; with needle-worked element · 1947
Art Institute of Chicago
Glorified Potato Bag
Mariska Karasz
Paper, plain gauze weave; embroidered with cotton, wool, jute, cellulose film and paper, metal foil laminated in cellulose acetate film, paper and rayon, animal collagen strips, wool and metal foil laminated in cellulose acetate film in chain, cross, herringbone, laced herringbone, running, twined double running, simple loop, and stem stitches · 1946
Art Institute of Chicago
Panel (#106)
Robert D. Sailors
Rayon, cotton, wool, acetate, and silk, broken twill weave · 1946
Art Institute of Chicago
Sample (Dr 21 J #4 special)
Robert D. Sailors
Rayon, cotton, wool, metallic foil encased in polyester film, and metallic foil encased in cellulose acetate butyrate film, broken twill weave · 1945
Art Institute of Chicago
Sample (Dr 56 B #1)
Robert D. Sailors
Cotton, wool, and metallic foil encased in polyester film, plain weave · 1945
Art Institute of Chicago
Sample (Dr 29 H #7)
Robert D. Sailors
Rayon, cotton, wool, and metallic foil encased in polyester film, open plain weave · 1945
Art Institute of Chicago
Sample (Up 44)
Robert D. Sailors
Jute, cotton, wool, and rayon, plain weave with supplementary patterning wefts · 1941
Art Institute of Chicago
Sample (Dr 305)
Robert D. Sailors
Rayon, cotton, wool, and cellulose acetate, broken twill weave · 1941
Art Institute of Chicago
Sample (17 V #5)
Robert D. Sailors
Cotton, wool, rayon and rabbit hair; strips of rayon and acetate, plain weave; rayon and cotton bouclé; polyester-film-laminated-metal-foil, plain weave · 1941
Art Institute of Chicago
Sample (Up 10 J #4)
Robert D. Sailors
Cotton, wool, metallic foil encased in polyester film, and rayon, warp chevron twill weave · 1941
Art Institute of Chicago
Panel
Marianne Strengell
Cotton, wool (bouclé) and rayon, creped and plied yarns, warp stripes in plain weave variations · 1940
Art Institute of Chicago
Textile
Maria Kipp
Cotton, wool, and lurex · 1940
Museum of Modern Art
Textile
Maria Kipp
Cotton, wool, and lurex · 1940
Museum of Modern Art
Textile
Maria Kipp
Cotton, wool, and lurex · 1940
Museum of Modern Art
Textile
Maria Kipp
Cotton, wool, and lurex · 1940
Museum of Modern Art
Sample (Upholstery Fabric)
Marianne Strengell
Cotton, wool and rayon, plain weave · 1938
Art Institute of Chicago
Pits & Pods (Furnishing Fabric)
Ruth Adler Schnee
Cotton, wool, plain weave; screen printed · 1937
Art Institute of Chicago