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A New Textile Collection Salutes the Women of the Bauhaus

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A New Textile Collection Salutes the Women of the Bauhaus

February 13, 2023

Interwoven, LA textile workshop Studio Ford’s latest collection, pays homage to the often overlooked women of the Bauhaus. Founder Josie Ford says she was inspired by their work, tenacity, and “radical push towards modernism”—and by the movement’s refusal to, in Walter Gropius’s words, “raise an arrogant barrier between craftsman and artist.”

The new pieces reference Bauhaus geometrics in subdued shades of blue, yellow, and red, and, like all of Studio Ford’s textiles, are designed in LA and hand block-printed by the atelier’s team of artisans in Jaipur, India.

Interwoven was unveiled at Tautes Heim, a Bauhaus-era house designed by architect Bruno Taut in a modernist development in Berlin known as the Horseshoe Estate. Restored with period furnishings and potent primary colors, the house is on the UNESCO World Heritage list—and available for overnight stays as a “rentable museum.” Come see the collection and the setting.

Photography by Austin Leis, courtesy of Studio Ford.

the cotton linen anni tablecloth, \$330, and anni napkins, \$\130 for four, are 17
Above: The cotton-linen Anni Tablecloth, $330, and Anni Napkins, $130 for four, are an ode to pioneering textile designer, weaver, printmaker, writer Anni Albers, who, notes Studio Ford, “inspired a reconsideration of fabric as an art form.”
the reversible anni quilt, \$600 in king/queen size, is block printed, hand sti 18
Above: The reversible Anni Quilt, $600 in king/queen size, is block printed, hand stitched, and cotton-filled: each takes months to complete.
gunta napkins, \$\130 for a set of four, are named after gunta stölzl, &am 19
Above: Gunta Napkins, $130 for a set of four, are named after Gunta Stölzl, “the head of weaving at the Bauhaus from 1927 to 1931, she was the only woman to ever become a master [the Bauhaus term for teacher].”
the quilts are also available as 50 by 70 inch, block printed, hand stitched th 20
Above: The quilts are also available as 50-by-70-inch, block-printed, hand-stitched throws; $440. This one is the Benita Throw after Benita Koch Otte, who, according to Studio Ford, attended the Bauhaus from 1920 to 1925: “as an essential part of the weaving department, she pushed back against the understanding of textiles as a feminine craft. She’s widely respected for her design of the kitchen at the 1923 Haus am Horn in Weimar.”
all of the quilts are block printed by hand on cotton percale before being hand 21
Above: All of the quilts are block printed by hand on cotton percale before being hand stitched; they have a natural cotton fill. The reversible Otti Quilt, $660 for king/queen size, references Otti Berger, who took “an experimental approach at the Bauhaus, toying with methodology and materials, and designing textiles intended for mass production.”
the anni quilt, \$660 for king/queen size, is shown here with anni pillows in c 22
Above: The Anni Quilt, $660 for king/queen size, is shown here with Anni Pillows in cotton-linen; the 22-by-22-inch size is $375 and includes a down insert.
the otti throw is \$440. 23
Above: The Otti Throw is $440.
the benita tablecloth, \$330, is made of hand dyed, block printed cotton linen; 24
Above: The Benita Tablecloth, $330, is made of hand-dyed, block-printed cotton-linen; Benita Napkins are $130 for four. Go to Tautes Heim to inquire about taking staying in—or taking a tour of—the house.

See Studio Ford’s previous block-printed collection—inspired by Victorian American overshot weavings—in Summer’s Backdrop.

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Blankets, Throws, & Quilts

Anni Quilt

$660.00 USD from Studio Ford
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Blankets, Throws, & Quilts

Benita Throw

$440.00 USD from Studio Ford
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Blankets, Throws, & Quilts

Otti Quilt

$660.00 USD from Studio Ford
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Blankets, Throws, & Quilts

Otti Throw

$440.00 USD from Studio Ford

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