{"product_id":"bauhaus-textiles-women-artists-and-the-weaving-workshop-9780500280348","title":"Bauhaus Textiles: Women Artists and the Weaving Workshop","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe preeminence of the Bauhaus in the history of twentieth-century design is undisputed  and most aspects of it have been minutely examined. Yet its Weaving Workshop  whose artists were almost all women  has received much less attention. As the author points out  when talented women arrived at the Bauhaus school  they soon discovered that its founder  Walter Gropius  was not adhering strictly to his ringing declaration of equality \"between the beautiful and the strong gender.\" Textiles  in the hierarchy of art and design  were deemed \"womens work.\" In this model study  superlatively illustrated with period photographs and examples of surviving textiles  Professor Weltge recreates the heady atmosphere of creative excitement at the Bauhaus. Drawing upon original archival research and interviews with Bauhaus survivors  their students  and leading contemporary designers  the author details the Weaving Workshops history and its enduring legacy. In the early years of the Workshop  the emphasis was on hand weaving and individual artistic expression. However  following the Bauhaus exhibition of 1923  the Weaving Workshop moved to the forefront in developing prototypes for the textile industry. Eagerly embracing advanced technology  the artists incorporated new or unusual materials  produced multilayered cloths  and made extensive use of the Jacquard loom. When the Nazis closed the Bauhaus in 1933  its members dispersed to Switzerland  Holland  England  France  Russia  Mexico  and the United States  where Black Mountain College and Mill College became Bauhaus outposts. The ideals and influence of the Weaving Workshops artists live on in marvelous fabrics still being produced today.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45648325083189,"sku":"ByrdShop_0500280347","price":491.67,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780500280348_468a65dd-7e07-4efe-984f-04a7cdc53272.jpg?v=1781715690","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/bauhaus-textiles-women-artists-and-the-weaving-workshop-9780500280348","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}