It's Pretty - But is it Art?
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Mary M. Atwater responds to Anni Albers' article "Handweaving Today" and the Henning-Rees article from the January-February 1941 Weaver. She rejects the ideas that handweaving exists to make models for industry, that it should be "free-formed" and not meant for use, and that durability does not matter. She also disputes the claim that texture and color alone are real design elements and that pattern weaving is outdated, and she defends pattern, usefulness and "approved repetition." The scan also includes Cornelia Stone's article on double weaving on eight harnesses, based on an 1849 Baltimore weaving manual by Abslam Hecht.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- July-August 1941
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 3
- Archive notes
- PDF provided by Judith Combs.
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From Ralph Griswold's Digital Archive, delivered by the University of Arizona.
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