Development in Rose II
1952
Anni Albers (American, born Germany, 1899–1994) New Haven, Connecticut, United States
Connecticut
Anni Albers was particularly interested in how a textile was visually defined by its technique and woven structure. In Development in Rose II, she incorporated discontinuous wefts- horizontal threads that do not travel across the entire width of the textile-punctuating the otherwise strict geometry of the piece. Knotting them in place, she added visual depth and texture.
Linen, warp-stripe, weft-bonded plain weave with open work and self-patterned by areas of discontinuous wefts, discontinuous single interlocking wefts, and gauze weave backed in areas with plain weave and/or main warp and ground weft floats