Collection of Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Our curators have highlighted 7 objects that are related to Textile, Futsu Crisscross, 2008.

Kimono length split diagonally over its entire lenth between gray and black. The gray color is the result of crossing a white warp with a black weft; the black area is a black warp and black weft. The hand-spun silk has a more cotton-like feel than reeled silk. Original design dates from 1910.

Textile, Yuki Tsumugi, 1988
warp: hand-spun silk (tsumugi) wrapped with reeled silk; weft: hand-spun silk....
Gift of Jun Okuzawa, Representative of Yuki Tsumugi Producers Association.
1989-99-1

This object is part of the Textiles collection.
There are 8 images of this object.

Silver and grey colored fabric with bands of different textures created by stitched-resist.

Textile, Horizontal, 1989
nylon slit film with holographic coating, polyester.
Gift of Arai Creation System.
1990-82-3

This object is part of the Textiles collection.
There are 4 images of this object.

Black and white scarf with a field of vertical stripes and a border at each end with a wide band of stacked triangles and two narrow borders of off-set rows of rectangles, with a small fringe.

Scarf (Japan), ca. 1983
cotton.
Gift of Junichi Arai.
1985-31-2

This object is part of the Textiles collection.
There are 4 images of this object.

Length of woven fabric with various textures and design of interlocking blocks in black shading to grey.

Textile, Stone Wall, 1984
wool, cotton.
Gift of NUNO Corporation.
1990-63-1

This object is part of the Textiles collection.
There are 3 images of this object.

Abstract geometric pattern in black and white, with jagged meanders filled with black and white harlequin, forming four-pointed white stars with black centers.

Textile, Baummarder (Pine Marten), 1910–11
silk.
Museum purchase from General Acquisitions Endowment Fund.
2005-8-99

This object is part of the Textiles collection.
There are 3 images of this object.

Textile, Futsu Crisscross

Textile, Futsu Crisscross
62% silk (raw silk and kibiso), 38% cotton.
2009-48-3

This object is part of the Textiles collection.
There are 3 images of this object.

Roughly cylindrical form of thin paper layers fanned out to form chair; the front and top cut and shaped to form contoured seat, low arms, and back, the seat further compressed and contoured by designer sitting in chair.

Honey-Pop Chair, 2001
layered paper, partially glued, cut, and fanned-open accordion style; seat....
Mueum purchase from Friends of Product Design and Decorative Arts Fund....
2008-6-1

This object is part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts collection.
There are 7 images and 1 video of this object.