Jersey striped print Jersey border hand print. Printed horizontally. Vertical stripes with circular motifs at lower edge. (blue/green)

%C2%A9 Jack Lenor Larsen%2C Inc.%2C Larsen Design Studio

Oriental Stripe, 1966

Nylon; knit, screen-printedexpand_more

Gift of Cowtan & Tout, Inc.expand_more  99.1.1026.2

Not on Viewexpand_more

Most fashion fabrics are developed to be used as vertical patterns but many of the new nylon knit, Ja-eL designs were intended to be used in either direction or primarily as horizontal visuals. Oriental Stripe is one of several patterns that highlighted border areas on skirts, dresses and pantsuits. As a fashion statement Sundown was used almost exclusively as a vertical graphic, but toward the end of the decade when it metamorphosed into an upholstery fabric it was consistently featured in a horizontal orientation.

The Larsen archive contains three colorways of Oriental Stripe and five colorways of Sundown.

Details
Title
Oriental Stripe
Artist Life
New York, est. 1952
Role
Designer
Accession Number
99.1.1026.2
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Jersey striped print Jersey border hand print. Printed horizontally. Vertical stripes with circular motifs at lower edge. (blue/green)

© Jack Lenor Larsen, Inc., Larsen Design Studio