The thousands of textiles currently housed at the Brooklyn Museum are prime examples of the vast glo

The thousands of textiles currently housed at the Brooklyn Museum are prime examples of the vast global history of textile making and sewing traditions in New York City. In participation with New York Textile Month,we will be showcasing one textile per day for the month of September.  While difficult to narrow it down to only thirty textiles, we think these works are best at weaving narratives about topics such as innovations in the textile industry, craft and the beauty of the handmade, textiles from legendary designers like Frank Lloyd Wright and Anni Albers, as well as textiles with a sense of humor. Did you know that PeeWee’s Playhouse had a line of textiles made?In 1950, Anni Albers gave the Museum thirty-seven textile studies, all about the same size, and ten “texture” studies. Thirty-one of the textile samples are labeled “drapery material,” three “wall covering material,” and three “fabric swatches.” The ten “texture” studies are composed of various found materials such as grass and seed pods, cotton tufts, fringed paper, and several abstract designs composed on a typewriter. The fibers are mostly processed and raw silks, cotton, chenille, twilled yarns, plus cellophane and crepe/rayon. The three “fabric swatches” include metallic threads as well. Most are rather airy, open-weaves and nearly monochromatic. An annotation in the gift paperwork reads: “Swatches of hand woven fabrics texture studies made by the donor and used for her textile study class.” From 1933 when Josef and Anni Albers left the Bauhaus in Germany for the United States until 1949, they were teachers at Black Mountain College, in North Carolina, and presumably these textile studies were used in the weaving classes that she taught.Posted by Barry R. Harwood, Lark Morgenstern, and Caitlin Crews -- source link
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