On Weaving (First UK Edition)

The classic study of weaving as an art and a craft by the weaver who taught a generation of designers, in its first British edition.

Anni Albers (1899–1994) trained at the Bauhaus and later taught at Black Mountain College. In 1949 she became the first textile designer given a solo exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. On Weaving was first published in 1965 by Wesleyan University Press, in a book of some eighty pages of text and more than a hundred illustrations. It treats the history, tools and techniques of weaving, and what the craft means for twentieth-century design. She dedicated it to “my great teachers, the weavers of ancient Peru”. A 1966 review praised its “inspiration and wisdom”. The book remained in print for about two decades, was reissued in paperback in 1974 and 2003, and appeared in an expanded full-colour edition from Princeton University Press in 2017.

First UK edition. Quarto, 204pp., with more than a hundred plates, photographs and diagrams [confirm]. Original cloth in the pictorial dust jacket, unclipped. A near fine copy with very minor marks along the edges of the boards, in a very good dust jacket a little rubbed and worn along the edges. The contents are clean and bright.

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Catalogue Number: HH000334