Furnishing Fabric Titled Cockerels
Josef Hoffmann
1904
- Medium
- Cotton, complementary warp and weft "tied and free" plain weave double cloth with supplementary stitching wefts
- Dimensions
- 107.6 × 125.1 cm (42 3/8 × 49 1/4 in.); Repeat: 34.3 × 10.5 cm (13 1/2 × 4 1/8 in.)
- Genre
- textile
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Styles
Tags
roostersModernismfurnishing textilebirdgeometricrectanglescotton (fiber)Textileweavingplain weaving
About
Hoffman’s textile designs are characterized by a sinuous geometry. This fabric introduces a traditional folk art motif of a cockerel, or rooster, into the woven grid.
