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Panel Entitled "ABC Drawn Quilt"
Cynthia Schira
Cotton and linen, areas of warp-float faced 7:1 satin weave; warp and weft-float faced 7:1 twill weaves; diamond and point twills; combined twill; and plain weaves with areas of paired warps or wefts and plain weaves self-patterned by main warp and ground weft floats; woven on TIS Jacquard handloom with Jacquard Computer Aided Design · 1998
Art Institute of Chicago
Tree Stripe (Furnishing or Decorative Fabric)
Cynthia Schira
Cotton and polyester, 7:1 satin damask weave self-patterned by areas of 4:4 and 2:6 twill weave · 1997
Art Institute of Chicago
Approaching Change
Cynthia Schira
Cotton, wool, rayon, acrylic, acetate, linen, silk and polyolefin, warp-dyed complementary warp, twill and mix-float weaves with discontinuous wefts · 1997
Art Institute of Chicago
Quietude
Cynthia Schira
Cotton, rayon, wool, and cotton and rayon tapes, plain weave with discontinuous and non-horizontal supplementary facing wefts · 1980
Art Institute of Chicago
Fisherman's Knot (Hanging)
Cynthia Schira
Wool and linen, slit tapestry weave; open areas of spaced paired warps interworked by simple knots in weft; plain weave of discontinuous warps · 1968
Art Institute of Chicago