Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Handwoven sample with a variegated yellow and white silk texture. The warp is of off-white silk; the weft is of one off-white silk thread paired with one yellow silk thread. Narrow plain weave band at top and bottom with undyed cotton wefts.
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Designer
- Anni Albers, (American, born Germany, 1899–1994)
- Weaver
- Anni Albers, (American, born Germany, 1899–1994)
- Date
- before 1953
- Credit Line
- Gift of Anni Albers
- Medium
- Medium: silk, cotton Technique: plain weave with paired wefts
- Dimensions
- H x W: 17.5 x 27 cm (6 7/8 x 10 5/8 in.)
- Type
- woven textiles
- Hand-woven sample
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