About this artwork
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.
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Status
- Currently Off View
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Department
- Textiles
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Artists
- Josef Hoffmann (Designer) , Johann Backhausen und Söhne (Producer)
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Title
- Furnishing Fabric Titled Cockerels, Hahnen (Furnishing Fabric)
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Places
- Vienna (Object made in:), Austria (Object made in:)
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Date
- Made 1904
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Medium
- Cotton, complementary warp and weft "tied and free" plain weave double cloth with supplementary stitching wefts
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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.)
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Credit Line
- Purchased with funds provided by Barbara E. and Richard J. Franke Fund and the Textile Society
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Reference Number
- 1994.18
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