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2. William Morris textile designs - Wikipedia

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   Tulip and willow design for printed textiles (1873) William Morris (1834-1898), a founder of the British Arts and Crafts movement, sought to restore the prestige and methods of hand-made crafts, including textiles, in opposition to the 19th century tendency toward factory-produced textiles. With this goal in mind, he created his own workshop ...

3. Toshiko MacAdam - Wikipedia

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   Toshiko MacAdam (born Toshiko Horiuchi) is a Japanese textile artist based in Bridgetown, Nova Scotia, Canada.She is best known for her work with large-scale textile structures, especially "textile playgrounds" for children, brightly colored net-like structures of crocheted and knotted nylon.

4. Sheila Hicks - Wikipedia

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   Sheila Hicks at the Musée Carnavalet, Paris, 2016. Photograph by Cristobal Zanartu. From 1959 to 1964 she resided and worked in Mexico; She moved to Taxco el Viejo, Mexico [7] where she began weaving, painting, and teaching at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) at the invitation of Mathias Goeritz who also introduced her to the architects Luis Barragán and Ricardo Legorreta ...

5. Kaffe Fassett - Wikipedia

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   His work was the subject of a 1988 one-man show at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, the first time a living textile artist had such a show there. The show toured nine countries. [12] [13] [14] Being strongly concerned with colour and design, Fassett has also worked extensively in other textile arts.

6. Anni Albers - Wikipedia

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   In 1925, Fleischmann married Josef Albers, the latter having rapidly become a "Junior Master" at the Bauhaus. [6] The school moved to Dessau in 1926, and a new focus on production rather than craft at the Bauhaus prompted Anni Albers to develop many functionally unique textiles combining properties of light reflection, sound absorption, durability, and minimized wrinkling and warping tendencies.

7. Claire Zeisler - Wikipedia

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   In the 1930s she bought works by Paul Klee, Joan Miró, Henry Moore, and Picasso, and as well as tribal objects including African sculptures, tantric art, ancient Peruvian textiles and more than 300 American Indian baskets. The ancient and ethnic textile cultures in Zeisler's private collection contrasted the textile culture in the West that ...