Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Hanging, almost square, with small tassels at top and bottom. Off-white ground with an irregular diagonal line moving from the lower left to upper right corner, with branching horizontal lines, in shades of black, purple, green and undyed natural linen. The dark linen area in the center appears recessed against the heavier wool ground.
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Designer
- Lenore Tawney, (American, 1907–2007)
- Weaver
- Lenore Tawney, (American, 1907–2007)
- Date
- 1959–60
- Credit Line
- Gift of Elizabeth Gordon
- Medium
- Medium: linen, wool, goat hair Technique: plain weave with discontinuous wefts (tapestry) Label: linen, wool and goat hair tapestry
- Dimensions
- Warp x Weft: 127 x 114 cm (50 x 44 7/8 in.)
- Type
- woven textiles
- Object Name
- Hanging
- Type
- Hanging
