Nets-and-bubbles textile

Nets-and-bubbles textile

Associated Artists

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

This fabric, which features a Japanesque pattern of fishnets and bubbles, may have been designed to coordinate with Associated Artists’ swimming-carp pattern. Like the carp fabric it is highly reminiscent of Japanese stencil designs and has been realized by the discharge-printing method. Yet, although at first glance this fabric appears to be a typical all-cotton twill-weave light blue denim, it is actually a more elegant smooth-faced satin textile with a cotton warp and a silk weft.

The American Wing

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

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The American Wing's ever-evolving collection comprises some 20,000 works of art by African American, Euro American, Latin American, and Native American men and women. Ranging from the colonial to early-modern periods, the holdings include painting, sculpture, works on paper, and decorative arts—including furniture, textiles, ceramics, glass, silver, metalwork, jewelry, basketry, quill and bead embroidery—as well as historical interiors and architectural fragments.