Jack Lenor Larsen / Display Length of Warp Print, Steppeflower / 1983

Jack Lenor Larsen
Display Length of Warp Print, Steppeflower
1983
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Creator Name: Larsen, Jack Lenor
Creator Nationality: North American; American
Creator Role: Designer
Creator Dates/Places: b. 1927
Gender: M
Creator Name-CRT: Jack Lenor Larsen
Title: Display Length of Warp Print, Steppeflower
View: front
Creation Start Date: 1983
Creation End Date: 1983
Creation Date: 1983
Object Type: Textiles
Materials and Techniques: Cotton
Dimensions: H.136-1/2 x W.53-1/2 in.
AMICA Contributor: The Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Owner Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
ID Number: 87.18
Credit Line: Gift of Jack Lenor Larsen
Rights: http://www.artsmia.org/restrictions.html
Context:

One of the achievements of contemporary designers has been the integration of historic and ethnographic aesthetics with modern technology. Coloring individual threads with a specific design and then weaving them together to create a patterned cloth (ikat) is a very labor-intensive technique developed over a thousand years ago in Asia. The process was mechanized by Europeans in the last century but remains a complicated procedure which only recently has been used to create contemporary designs.

This fabric, with its distinctive 1980s coloration, incorporates the blurred edges, chintz finish, and some design elements of the spectacular ikats produced in Central Asia during the last century.

AMICA ID: MIA_.87.18
Measurement Unit: in
AMICA Library Year: 2000
Media Metadata Rights: ?The Minneapolis Institute of Arts

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