Design Talk | Dorothy Liebes: Unorthodox Textiles
Channel: Cooper Hewitt
Date: 2019-12-18

Cooper Hewitt hosts RISD Museum Curator of Costume and Textiles Kate Irvin in a design talk exploring the experimental materials, novelty textures, and “vibrating” color palette in textiles generated by designer and entrepreneur Dorothy Wright Liebes (1897-1972), nationally recognized in her own time as America’s “First Lady of the looms.” 



This program received funding from the Smithsonian American Women's History Initiative.