A twill woven cotton and merino wool blanket with twenty-five horizontal bands of color which increase and descrease in saturation in small block increments from one side to the other. The colors include violet, olive green, pink, pale blue and lemon yellow. At the top of the blanket the words [RAW COLOR, MULTITONE, INDEX COLLECTION] are printed in violet capital letters

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Object Timeline

2012	Work on this object began.
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2014	We photographed this object.
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Blanket, Index Collection, 2012

This is a Blanket. It was woven by TextielLab. It is dated 2012 and we acquired it in 2013. Its medium is organic cotton warp, merino wool weft and its technique is twill woven. It is a part of the Textiles department.

The TextielLab at the Textiel Museum in Tilburg, Netherlands, is a studio for experimentation with state of the art knitting and weaving technologies. The lab regularly invites designers working in a variety of disciplines to conduct research and explore new capabilities using the lab’s machines. In 2012, the Dutch design studio Raw Color was invited to participate. Raw Color’s young principals, Daniera ter Haar and Christoph Brach, work primarily in graphic design and photography. When they were invited to TextielLab, the designers had been engaged in a series of color experiments—including using vegetables to create printing inks—to examine the relationship between materiality and color. Working with the team at Tilburg, der Haar and Brach created the Index Collection of tea towels and blankets, which explores concepts from graphic design in woven form. In terms of both technology and terminology, there is surprisingly little overlap between print and weaving.
The Index Collection uses a series of boxes, similar to the screen keys seen on the sides of printed fabrics, to express the intensity of color in each surface, from 10% to 100%. In weaving, this variation in color intensity is created by altering the weave structure to bring more of the colored yarn to the surface. In addition to color intensity, the blanket proposed for acquisition also shows monotone, duotone, and multitone examples of color blending as executed in weaving.

It is credited Gift of Raw Color.

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label: woven cotton samples, leather binding, paper label, brass rivets.
Gift of Harvey Smith.
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Plate, Interaction of Color, Plate VIIII-I

Plate, Interaction of Color, Plate VIIII-I
chromolithograph.
Smithsonian Libraries, ND1489 .A33 1963.
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Horizontal rectangular print with fifty colorful squares arranged in a grid five squares high by ten squares wide. The primary color shifts in a gradient from yellow filling the squares at left to red at right. Each square is filled with thin vertical lines in a contrasting color shifting from blue to green to yellow from top to bottom and bordered in that same color. Thin white lines fill the spaces in between the squares and a thick white border at top and bottom. Faint handwritten words in pencil at lower right.

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screenprint on paper.
Gift of Joshua Mack.
1995-38-8

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Its dimensions are

H x W: 170.2 x 200 cm (5 ft. 7 in. x 6 ft. 6 3/4 in.)

Cite this object as

Blanket, Index Collection, 2012; Woven by Textile Museum; The Netherlands; organic cotton warp, merino wool weft; H x W: 170.2 x 200 cm (5 ft. 7 in. x 6 ft. 6 3/4 in.); Gift of Raw Color; 2013-22-1

This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition Saturated: The Allure and Science of Color.

Short URL http://cprhw.tt/o/4948p/
Accession Number 2013-22-1
Object ID 35520905