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Helene Börner headed the weaving workshop as Master of Craft from 1919 to 1925. The overall responsibility lay with Johannes Itten (1920/1921) and Georg Muche (1921/1927), before the Bauhaus graduates Gunta Stölzl (1925/1931), Anni Albers (1931), and Otti Berger (1931/1932) took over the responsibility for education and production in the workshop. From 1932, the architect Lilly Reich ran the furnishing as well as the textiles workshop. ´Fashion´ was not a topic at the Bauhaus. The few preserved garments from the textile workshop, also described in writing, indicate personal use and individual pieces of craftsmanship. At the Bauhaus in Dessau, various fabric types were developed: curtain fabrics, transparent drapes, wall covering and furniture fabrics.

Anonymous, Fabric printed for curtains, 1932

Bauhaus dress made from fabric by Lis Volger, 1928

Gunta Stölzl, “Red-Green” slotted tapestry, 1927/28

Weaving workshop at the Bauhaus Weimar, c. 1923

Weaving workshop at the Bauhaus Weimar, c. 1923

Gunta Stölzl, Wall coverings using cellophane, c. 1931, photograph: Walter Peterhans

Agnes Roghé, Fabric by the metre (design), 1923/24

Benita Koch-Otte, Rug of knotted wool, c. 1923

Gunta Stölzl, “Black and White” tapestry, 1923/24

Hedwig Jungnik, Tapestry with abstract forms, 1921/23

Gunta Stölzl, Bauhaus furniture fabrics, sample book, 1925-28

Gunta Stölzl, Design for a tapestry, 1923

Gertrud Arndt, Tapestry, 1927

Felix Kube, Fabric printed using a spray technique, c. 1921