Writings

The Books subseries includes handwritten and typed drafts, page proofs, correspondence, contracts and royalty statements, notes, lists, publicity, and printed materials pertaining to books written by Anni Albers, including various editions of each. Books include Anni’s important texts, On Designing, and On Weaving, with a small amount of material from Pre-Columbian Miniatures.

The Various subseries includes various writings by Anni Albers. These writings appeared in various publications, many in Design. Highlights include “Bauhausweberei” in Junge Menschen 5 from 1926, “Work with Materials,” “Handweaving Today: Textile Work at Black Mountain College,” “We Need the Crafts for Their Contact with Materials,” “The Pliable Plane” in Perspecta 4 from 1957, and her obituary for Walter Gropius “On Walter Gropius” in Craft Horizons from 1969. Several of these articles were republished in On Designing.

Includes typescript drafts with publicity for various lectures. All are untitled except for “Material as Metaphor,” given at the College Art Association of America in New York.