Two lengths of fancy compound twill Yale University Art Gallery

ca. 1935

Medium: Wild (tussah) silk (weft threads) and cultivated silk (warp threads)
Dimensions: a: 24 1/2 × 54 in. (62.23 × 137.16 cm)
a Pattern repeat: 2 3/4 in. (6.99 cm)
b: 24 1/2 × 61 in. (62.23 × 154.94 cm)
b Pattern repeat: 2 3/4 in. (6.99 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of Cheney Brothers, Manchester, Conn.
Accession Number: 1938.14a-b
Geography: Manufactured in South Manchester, Connecticut
Culture: American
Period: 20th century
Classification: Textiles
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Bibliography

John Stuart Gordon et al., A Modern World: American Design from the Yale University Art Gallery, 1920–1950 (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2011), 218–19, no. 142

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Subject

Geometric, Native American, bird, geometric abstraction, stylization

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