A work made of 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.

Ancestors

1984/2008

Ethel Stein (American, 1917-2018) United States

New York

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.

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

Textiles

Women artists