Rug Sample
Marianne Strengell
1950–1959
- Medium
- Wool, cotton, linen, rayon, jute and nylon, weft-faced plain weave with weft bands of pile woven from woven fringe and chenille yarn ground wefts and by supplementary wrapping wefts forming cut pile through a technique known as "Ghiordes knots;" knotted warp fringe
- Dimensions
- 93.1 × 21.7 cm (35 5/8 × 8 1/2 in.)
- Genre
- Textile
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Styles
Tags
weaving - carpetwool (textile)Modernismnylonghiordes knotsrayonlinen (material)juteknottingcotton (fiber)Textileplain weaving
