Ancestors
Ethel Stein
1983–2008
- Medium
- Cotton, plain weave with discontinuous supplementary wefts bound in twill interlacings and supplementary pile warps forming cut and voided velvet; woven on a loom with a drawloom attachment fabricated by the artist
- Dimensions
- 64.5 × 53.3 cm (25 3/8 × 21 in.)
- Genre
- textile
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Styles
Tags
21st Centuryfiber artTextileweaving - velvetweaving
About
Stein created this amoeba-like form after visiting an exhibition about the exploration of life in the deep ocean or volcanoes at the American Museum of Natural History in New York.
