Wall hanging by Gunta Stölzl
The Bauhaus weaving workshop made textiles into an abstract visual language of squares and stripes.
In 1927 Gunta Stölzl became the only female master at the Bauhaus and ran the weaving workshop. It made both unique hangings and prototypes for industry.
The hangings show how weaving could become an art form of its own, built from the crossing of threads. The work is protected by copyright, so only a drawing is shown.
Materials: Cotton, silk, wool and rayon
Manufacture: Hand-woven in the Bauhaus weaving workshop in Dessau.
Strictly geometric patterns of squares and stripes.
Mixed materials with different sheens.
Fields of colour stepping across each other.