Furnishing Fabric Titled Cockerels

Description

Hoffman’s textile designs are characterized by a sinuous geometry. This fabric introduces a traditional folk art motif of a cockerel, or rooster, into the woven grid.

Furnishing Fabric Titled Cockerels

Johann Backhausen und Söhne

1904

Accession Number

133794

Medium

Cotton, complementary warp and weft "tied and free" plain weave double cloth with supplementary stitching wefts

Dimensions

107.6 × 125.1 cm (42 3/8 × 49 1/4 in.); Repeat: 34.3 × 10.5 cm (13 1/2 × 4 1/8 in.)

Classification

textile

Museum

The Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Credit Line

Purchased with funds provided by Barbara E. and Richard J. Franke Fund and the Textile Society