Inspiration and Production | Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Dark green ground appliquéd with a dark brown layer. Large areas of the brown layer have been cut away and are stitched to the ground fabric in a stylized floral pattern using bright red thread.

In 2004, the Museum commissioned Hella Jongerius to create a series of ten textiles, collectively titled Sampler Blanket, in conjunction with her Collection Selects exhibition. Each work in the show was inspired by designs found on historic samplers in the Museum’s Textile collection, which includes over 1,000 examples of embroidered samplers from all over the … Continue reading Inspiration and Production