woven cotton panel with blue, yellow, brown, gold and purple rectangles and squares in various sizes; vertical and horizontal lines alternate throughout; machine-stitched seam runs along shorter edges of panel

%C2%A9 Richard Landis

Weaving 1976, c. 1976

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Double weave cottonexpand_more

Gift of Helena Hernmarckexpand_more  2016.44

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Richard Landis is best known for compact double-cloth textiles that explore color interaction. In double-cloth weaving, multiple sets of warp (vertical threads) and weft (horizontal threads) form two interlaced cloths, which, if they could be separated, would form complete textiles.

With the weaver’s manipulation, the sets of warp and weft change sides, moving from the “front” to the “back” of the cloth. Landis exploits the movement of threads to experiment with color interplay: dark and light warp threads alternate back and forth to interlace with light and dark wefts, generating subtle, harmonious shifts in hue and tone.

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Title
Weaving 1976
Artist Life
born 1931
Role
Artist
Accession Number
2016.44
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woven cotton panel with blue, yellow, brown, gold and purple rectangles and squares in various sizes; vertical and horizontal lines alternate throughout; machine-stitched seam runs along shorter edges of panel

© Richard Landis

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