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Is it Playtime, Yet?
Shannon MurphyFrieze, The Froebel, 1905. E.J. Walenta for Wm. Campbell Wall Paper Company, Machine-printed on paper, Hackensack, New Jersey, USA, Gift of Paul F. Franco, 1938-50-15Wearing complimentary...
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Levi's Design Stands the Test of Time
Kimberly CisnerosPoster: "The Birth of the Blues" for Levi Strauss, ca. 1975–80. Gift of Various Donors. 1981-29-253.Who can forget those 1990’s Levi’s commercials – marketing sex appeal, celebrity...
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India Chintz All Pieced Together
Gregory HerringshawSidewall, France, 1760–65, Block-printed on handmade paper, Gift of Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt 1931-45-10People are always inquiring how the Museum acquires its wallpaper samples....
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Put An Owl On It
Amanda KesnerTextile, The Owl, 1892. Arnold Print Works, N. Adams, Mass. Gift of Harvey Smith. 1964-53-4.Owls are nocturnal birds that are characterized in most people’s memories as wise creatures,...
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Mercury's Swift Flight
Kristina ParsonsDrawing: Design for Sand-Blasted Glass Mural: Mercury Gathering Air Waves Amidst Planets and Stars, 1932. Hildreth Meière. Museum purchase from Drawings and Prints Council Fund....
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A Soviet Achievement
Rachel BrillPlate, Woman Swimmer. Russia, Soviet Union, 1937. Designed by Tatiana Mikhailovna Demorei, manufactued by Dmitrov Porcelain Factory. The Henry and Ludmilla Shapiro Collection; Partial gift...
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Hooks and Frocks
Gregory HerringshawMural, Hooks and Frocks, 1999, Designed by Deborah Bowness, Screen-printed on paper, London, England, Gift of Anthropologie, 2007-18-1-a/dDeborah's work is a contemporary example of...
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One Artist's Range From Traditional to Abstract
Carly LewisTextile: Four Seasons. Designed by Luba Krejci. Czechoslovakia, 1964. Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Herbert Paskow, 1982-9-1Lace-making was a tradition in Luba Krejci’s native Czechoslovakia, but...
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Women, Charity, and Craft in America
Elizabeth MattisonPlate, Boston, Massachusetts, 1917. Designed by Fanny Levine, Saturday Evening Girls Club, made by Paul Revere Pottery. Gift of Justin G. Schiller, 1993-120-18 This buttercup-yellow...
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Black and White and Read All Over
Gregory HerringshawSidewall, Newsworthy, 2010, Designed by Lori Weitzner, India, Gift of Lori Weitzner, 2010-15-1Newsworthy is a handsome wallpaper that puts a new spin on an old technique. Woven on...
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Exercising Their Rights
Carolina Valdes-LoraPoster: Union de Muchachas/ Campamento Deportivo (Women’s Union/ Sports Camp), ca. 1937. Designed by Juana Francisca Rubio García (Spanish, 1911-2008). Gift of William P. Mangold,...
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A Fabric Within a Fabric
Carly LewisTextile: Panache. Designed by Anne White. England 1984. Cotton. Gift of Warner Fabrics, 1991-103-6-a/gLiterally translated as “deceives the eye,” the French term trompe l’oeil refers to a...
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Precious Jewelry of Hair: A Brooch and Bracelet Set for Mourning
Rebecca McNamaraBracelet and brooch, England or USA, ca. 1837, Hair, gold, ivory, seed pearls, pailettes, Gift of Mrs. Charles W. Lester, 1960-17-1,2In the genteel Victorian parlor, fashionable women...
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All The World's A Fair
Kristina ParsonsPrint, Cover of The New Yorker, September 2, 1939: The New York World's Fair, 1939. Designed by Ilonka Karasz. Gift of Anonymous Donor, 1960-207-18.When F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote The...
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Not to be Served for Breakfast
Gregory HerringshawSidewall, Eiweiss, Rosemarie Trockel, Manufactured by Patterson-Piazza, Inc., 1998; Plainview, New York, USA; Screen-printed and flocked on paper; Gift of Joseph Holtzman,...
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An Eye for Nature: Dora Jung’s Shell Tapestries
Mae ColburnHanging: Shells II. Made by Dora Jung (1906-1980), 1957. Museum Purchase from Au Panier Fleuri Fund, 1959-143-2Shells II is one of a series of four shell weavings created by Finnish textile...
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Back to 1983!
Kristina ParsonsPoster: Your Turn My Turn, 1983. Designed by April Greiman. Gift of April Greiman, 1995-167-3.Tune up your flux-capacitor and take a trip back to 1984. Macintosh computers are making...
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Crossed Wires: The Gendered Technology of the Princess Phone
Taylor AlvisPrincess telephone. USA, ca. 1960. Designed by Henry Dreyfuss, Henry Dreyfuss Associates, for Bell Telephone Company, manufactured by Western Electric Manufacturing Company. Molded plastic,...
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Mary McFadden Dresses the Walls
Gregory HerringshawSidewall, Sanscrit, 1978; Mary McFadden, Made by Raintree Designs, Inc.; New York, USA; Screen-printed on vinyl; Gift of Richard Kirkham, 1979-47-2Sanscrit is one of ten different...
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Weaving Outside the Lines
Mae ColburnHanging: Evening. Made by Eva Anttila. Finland, 1949. Wool. Gift of Elizabeth Gordon, 1964-24-48Active from the 1940s through the 1980s, Finnish artist Eva Anttila famously wove, or had a...
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