{"product_id":"womens-work-textile-art-from-the-bauhaus","title":"Women's Work: Textile Art from the Bauhaus","description":"\u003cp\u003eResurrecting the work of gifted craftswomen  too long denied their place as pioneers in their field  Womens Work: Textile Art from the Bauhaus unearths a missing chapter in the story of the most important institution in the history of modern design. The Bauhaus defined modern design in the twentieth century. As the preeminent design phenomenon of the era  almost every aspect of it has been minutely examined. Yet the Weaving Workshop  the longest standing and most successful of all Bauhaus workshops  has been neglected for one simple reason: when the first wave of brilliantly talented women arrived at the school  they soon discovered that Bauhaus founder Walter Gropius could not sustain his ringing declaration of equality between \"the beautiful and the strong gender.\" Textiles  in the hierarchy of art and design  were to be \"womens work.\" Their results  however  were remarkable  both in the early days of artistic expression in Weimar and in later developments in the textile industry. The craftswomen responded to the demands of advanced technology with fabrics that incorporated new or unusual materials such as Cellophane  leather and early synthetics  which had acoustic and light-reflecting properties. They produced multi-layered fabrics  cloths with double and triple weaves  and later made extensive use of the jacquard loom. The result was a rebirth of hand-weaving and new professionalism in designing textiles for mass production. In this model study  superlatively documented with rare or little-seen photographs of the textiles and their makers  Sigrid Wortmann Weltge captures the heady atmosphere of creative excitement at the Bauhaus. Original archival research and interviews  both with survivors and their students and with leading contemporary designers  detail the workshops history and its enduring legacy. When the Nazis closed the institution in 1933  its members dispersed to Switzerland  Holland  England  France  Russia  Mexico  and throughout the United States; their ideals and influence live on in marvelous fabrics still being produced today.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44945771659317,"sku":"ByrdShop_0811804666","price":93.2,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780811804660.jpg?v=1769910108","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/womens-work-textile-art-from-the-bauhaus","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}