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Cloth 100 Artists: Contemporary & Heritage Techniques

NO. B448

Lena Corwin

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Harry N. Abrams, 2025

Artist, textile designer, and author Lena Corwin highlights the work of 100 talented and diverse American fiber artists in a new book for all who are inspired by weaving, quilting, dyeing, and other heritage techniques In Cloth, Lena Corwin spotlights American artists using (and reinventing) heritage techniques. The contributors represent a wide spectrum of age, gender, race, and locale; and their rooted ancestral influences are unique. Each artist, including Lena herself, shares their fascinating perspective and process to create a book that is a colorful, captivating portrait of works made with fiber. Chapters explore four categories of fiber art: -Weave and Braid (loom, handweaving) -Sew and Quilt (patchwork, stitch, embroider) -Loop and Felt (crochet, knit, felt) -Print and Dye (screen print, block print, batik, dye bath) The book includes DIY instruction via eight projects (created by the author in collaboration with a contributing artist) so that readers can learn, experiment, and create. Contributing artists include: Zak Foster, host of the Seamside podcast; Jen Garrido; Ilana Kohn; Rose Pearlman; Hopie Stockman Hill, Block Shop; Windy Chien.

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Measurements: 0'8" x 0'10" ( 0.21 m x 0.26 m )
Categories: Art, Volumes
Classification: Art, Design
SKU: B448

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Oushak rugs, also spelled Uşak or Ushak, stand among the most influential textile traditions in the history of interior design. Originating in western Anatolia, in the historic weaving town of Uşak in present-day Turkey, these carpets are not merely decorative artifacts; they are architectural design elements, cultural documents, and artistic statements that have shaped interior aesthetics across centuries. From Ottoman imperial courts to Renaissance European palaces and today’s luxury residential, hospitality, and gallery spaces, Oushak rugs continue to define a visual language of soft geometry, spacious design, muted tonal harmony, and painterly abstraction. Their enduring relevance places them at the intersection of art history, textile heritage, and contemporary interior design innovation.

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October 2, 2026

The Long Life of a Green: On Celery, Color of the Year, and the Four Centuries of Weaving That Anticipated It

Every year, the color world makes its pronouncement, and every year the design world turns to see what it has been given. For 2027, Sherwin-Williams has named Celery; a light, airy, herbal green with a yellow undertone, chosen, in the company's words, for a moment that prizes wellness, balance, and connection. It is a soft color with a quiet glow and a faint edge; it pairs, its makers note, with white for something breezy, with cranberry red for something playful, with brown for something elevated. It is, by any measure, a beautiful and intelligent choice. It is also a color the great weavers of the world have understood for four hundred years.

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September 30, 2026

Navajo Rugs: History, Art, Design & the Legacy of Diné Weaving

Navajo rugs occupy a singular position within the history of American textile art. Woven by decorative tradition. They embody generations of knowledge surrounding sheep, wool, spinning, natural materials, color, geometry, landscape, community, and cultural continuity. simultaneously as cultural expression, design, craftsmanship, and fine art. the familiar geometric vocabulary. It means understanding the history of Diné weaving, the beyond their decorative presence. Our interest lies in the relationship between weaving tradition, material quality, design intelligence, cultural history and architectural application.

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September 25, 2026

Provenance, Structure, Intelligibility: The Three Pillars of Serious Collecting

Anyone can acquire a rug. To collect one, to bring it into a serious collection with the confidence that it belongs there, requires a discipline, and that discipline rests on three questions. Across four decades of building one of the most significant archives in the country, this house has come to evaluate every object through the same three. They are the difference between buying and collecting, and they are worth setting down plainly, because they apply as readily to a Safavid fragment as to a signed Aubusson, and because they are the same three questions, at bottom, that a curator at the Metropolitan or a specialist at Christie's brings to any object of consequence.

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September 23, 2026

What Makes Tibetan Wool the Gold Standard for Custom Rugs

Every great rug begins long before the loom. It begins on the animal, in the place, in the particular conditions that made the fiber what it is. And among all the wools that have ever been spun into a carpet, few can rival the wool of the Tibetan highlands, a material whose superiority is not a matter of marketing but of altitude, climate, and the unhurried logic of the natural world. The sheep of the Tibetan plateau live at elevations that would defeat most living things, thin air, brutal cold, a growing season measured against a sky closer than it has any right to be. Nature's answer to that severity is the fleece. To survive the plateau, the animal must grow a wool of exceptional density and, crucially, of exceptional lanolin content; the natural oil that coats each fiber, repels water, resists soil, and lends the finished yarn a luster and resilience that lowland wools cannot approach. What is hardship for the animal is a gift to the weaver.

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June 24, 2024

A Profile on Zeruah H. Guernsey Caswell and her Embroidered American Carpets

"The Great Cover-Up: American Rugs on Beds, Tables and Floors", an exceptional exhibition at the American Folk Art Museum, showcased the work of numerous talented artists, most of whom were women and often anonymous or labeled as "unidentified." Embroidered American Carpets Covering interior surfaces has historically served both utilitarian and decorative purposes. Early American rugs, crafted through methods such as yarn sewing, shirring, appliqué, and embroidery, often transcended their functional roles through the graphic power of their color and design. "The Great Cover-up: American Rugs on Beds, Tables, and Floors" showcases around 65 rugs spanning from the late 18th to the mid-20th century, including several monumental masterworks. Highlights include the museum’s impressive 13-foot Appliqued Carpet (c. 1860) and the magnificent Embroidered Carpet (1832–1835) by Zeruah H. Guernsey Caswell, from the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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Cloth 100 Artists: Contemporary & Heritage Techniques

NO. B448

Lena Corwin

Preserved in our design reference library. Inquire to visit and use as a resource.

Harry N. Abrams, 2025

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Measurements: 0'8" x 0'10" ( 0.21 m x 0.26 m )
Categories: Art, Volumes
Classification: Art, Design
SKU: B448

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Stories from the Volumes Collection

The Complete Guide to Oushak Rugs: History, Aesthetic Language, and Contemporary Design Use

The Long Life of a Green: On Celery, Color of the Year, and the Four Centuries of Weaving That Anticipated It

Navajo Rugs: History, Art, Design & the Legacy of Diné Weaving

Provenance, Structure, Intelligibility: The Three Pillars of Serious Collecting

What Makes Tibetan Wool the Gold Standard for Custom Rugs

A Profile on Zeruah H. Guernsey Caswell and her Embroidered American Carpets

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