Artworks

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

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

Marianne Strengell

Cotton, jute and wool, plain weave with two-color complementary wefts; knotted warp fringe · 1950

Marianne Strengell

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

Marianne Strengell

Linen, wool and cotton, weft band plain weave, weft-wrapping and 'countered' weft-wrapping; knotted warp fringe · 1950

Folly Cove Designers

Cotton, plain weave; block-printed; cut warp and weft fringe · 1950

Tatsumura Textile Company Ltd.

Silk, three color complementary warp plain weave with inner wefts and self-patterned by inner weft floats; knotted warp fringe · 1950

reg/wick Hand Woven Originals

Cotton, rayon, and metal foil laminated in cellulose-acetate-film-wrapped cotton, bands of plain and twill weaves; warp fringe · 1948

Else Regensteiner

Rayon, wool, cellulose, and acetate-film-laminated-metal-foil-wrapped cotton, plain weave; warp fringe · 1946

Robert D. Sailors

Rayon, polyester, and cotton, plain weave with extended warp fringe · 1945

Marta Maas-Fjetterstrom

Linen and wool, plain weave with supplementary wrapping wefts forming cut pile through a technique known as “Ghiordes Knots,” knotted warp fringe · 1944

Marianne Strengell

Linen, wool and cotton, weft-faced plain weave with supplementary wrapping wefts forming cut pile through a technique known as "Ghiordes Knots;" knotted warp fringe · 1943

Bamana

10 strips of cotton, undyed and dyed with indigo and commercial orange dye; weft faced, strip woven, machine stitched together, finished with twisted fringe · 1940

David Fredenthal

Linen, wool, cotton, and rayon, plain weave with supplementary brocading wefts; knotted and plaited main warp fringe · 1937

Ida Ou Nadif

Wool, plain weave; appliquéd with nylon machine knitting and wool and rayon felt; embroidered with wool, wax-coated-wool, and rayon in buttonhole, cross, long-armed cross, and stem stitches; back stitch couching; knotted wool and cut fringe · 1930

Maya

Cotton and wool; stripes of warp-faced plain weave alternate with stripes of plain weave derived simple float weave; warp fringe · 1930

Maya

Cotton and silk; twill and slit tapestry weave with inserts of eccentric wefts; in slit tapestry weave area grouped warps; applied silk fringe · 1930

Maya

Cotton and wool, plain and twill slit tapestry weave with eccentric wefts; cotton, tassels and fringe · 1930

Lauktu Chin

Sides: cotton, warp striped, warp-faced, weft ribbed plain weave; ends embroidered with cotton in double running stitches terminating in cotton, knotted cut fringe tassels at selvage edge; center: cotton, warp-faced, weft ribbed plain weave with supplementary patterning wefts; all warp ends twined, plied, and knotted over cotton, cut to form pom-poms · 1930

Mru Chin

Cotton, warp striped, warp-faced, weft ribbed plain weave with supplementary patterning wefts; embellished with discontinuous supplementary wrapping elements; ends embroidered with cotton and wool in buttonhole stitches; couching; selvage fringe of cotton with glass beads; and end fringe of cotton and glass beads, knotted around wool · 1925

Bamana

10 strips of cotton, undyed and dyed with indigo; weft faced with supplementary weave, strip woven, machine stitched together, finished with twisted fringe · 1925

Khumi Chin

Cotton, plain weave with patterning wefts; ends embroidered with cotton in double running stitches; all edges finished with cotton, glass-bead and seed-pod fringe terminating in outer silk or silk and cotton-knotted fringe · 1925

Jean Lurçat

Wool, plain weave with supplementary wrapping wefts forming solid cut pile through a technique known as "Ghiordes knots"; attached wool, knotted fringe · 1925