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Artworks

Sample (Upholstery Fabric)
Robert D. Sailors
Nylon-wrapped-metallized-polyester film, silk, cotton, cotton chenille, and wool (mohair) and silk bouclé, plain weave; open work · 1992
Art Institute of Chicago

Sample (Ladders) (UP148 S#1/#17)
Robert D. Sailors
Nylon-wrapped-metallized-polyester film and raffia, plain weave · 1992
Art Institute of Chicago

Gold Coast Africa (Upholstery Fabric)
Robert D. Sailors
Nylon-wrapped-metallized-polyester film and raffia, plain weave · 1992
Art Institute of Chicago

Inch Square...More or Less (Upholstery Fabric)
Robert D. Sailors
Nylon-wrapped-metallized-polyester film, raffia, cellulose acetate, and wool, plain weave · 1992
Art Institute of Chicago

Eola Light
Rodolfo Bretzel
Parachute nylon and metal interior fan · 1992
Museum of Modern Art

Castello (Furnishing Fabric)
Création Baumann
Polyester, wild silk, rayon, nylon, and linen, plain weave with weft ribs formed by shots of multiple weft · 1991
Art Institute of Chicago

Shirret (Rug)
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
Art Institute of Chicago

Deodorized Central Mass with Satellites
Mike Kelley
Plush toys sewn over wood and wire frames with styrofoam packing material, nylon rope, pulleys, steel hardware and hanging plates, fiberglass, car paint, and disinfectant · 1991
Museum of Modern Art

Red Doors
Robert D. Sailors
Nylon-wrapped-metallized-polyester film and wool, plain weave; open work · 1990
Art Institute of Chicago

Sample (Hanging)
Robert D. Sailors
Nylon, metalized polyester film, acrylic, wool, rayon, bamboo, and possibly cork; plain weave; open warp · 1990
Art Institute of Chicago

Sample (Hanging)
Robert D. Sailors
Nylon, cellulose film (coated), cellulose acetate, fiberglass, juste, bamboo, and metal; plain weave; open warp · 1990
Art Institute of Chicago

Sample (Hanging)
Robert D. Sailors
Wool (probably mohair), nylon, and bamboo acrylic sheet, plain weave; open warp · 1990
Art Institute of Chicago

The Big Slide
Cady Noland
Metal pole and fittings, plastic phone cord boxes, cotton and nylon flags, walking cane for the blind, wire dishwasher rack, high reach pole, key rings · 1989
Art Institute of Chicago

Animal Wet Suit
Stephen Peart
Neoprene and nylon jersey · 1988
Museum of Modern Art

Greenwich Village (Sample )(Furnishing Fabric)
Ben Rose
Wool and nylon, tied double cloth of plain weave (face) and weft-float faced twill weave · 1987
Art Institute of Chicago

Mysterium
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
Art Institute of Chicago

Limelight (Sample) (Furnishing Fabric)
Ben Rose
Wool, and nylon, warp-faced weft-ribbed plain weave with supplementary backing wefts and supplementary patterning wefts · 1986
Art Institute of Chicago

Accord (Furnishing Fabric)
Jack Lenor Larsen Inc.
Wool and nylon, plain weave with supplementary brocading wefts · 1986
Art Institute of Chicago

Racing Wheelchair
Bob Hall
Aircraft steel tubing, cotton, and nylon · 1986
Museum of Modern Art

Champion 3000 Adjustable Rigid-Frame Wheelchair
Rainer Küschall
Aluminum, rubber, plastic, and nylon · 1986
Museum of Modern Art

Autobahn (Sample) (Furnishing Fabric)
Ben Rose
Cotton, wool and nylon, satin damask weave self-patterned by areas of mixed twill weaves · 1985
Art Institute of Chicago

Panel (Furnishing Fabric)
Ben Rose
Nylon and rayon, plain weave self-patterned by main warp and ground weft floats · 1985
Art Institute of Chicago

Panel (Furnishing Fabric)
Ben Rose
Cotton, wool and nylon, complementary warp and weft plain weave; woven on a loom with Jacquard attachment · 1985
Art Institute of Chicago

Big Checkerboard (No. 9-97)
Jun-ichi Arai
Nylon, plain weave · 1984
Art Institute of Chicago