Fragment van roze bedrukte zijde met een patroon van korenaren c. 1910 - 1917

Fritzi Löw made this fragment of pink printed silk with a pattern of ears of wheat. Imagine Löw in her studio, carefully selecting her dyes and screens, maybe even mixing them herself? I think it might have been pretty physical to print this piece, pressing the screen onto the fabric, pulling the squeegee across, lifting the screen to see the image appear. It feels very hands-on, very human. It makes me think about the tradition of textile design, where the same pattern is printed over and over, but each time there will be a slightly different result. Each time the hand of the artist will leave its trace, a kind of record of the making. The texture of the silk looks soft and worn, and the pink and blue evoke a kind of domestic interior, perhaps a bedroom. It's cool how a simple pattern of stylized ears of wheat can communicate so much feeling, and connect us to something that's both homely and also very universal. It reminds me of the work of Anni Albers, who explored the intersection of art, craft, and industry. These artists are in a constant dialogue across time, and they inspire each other's creativity.