Object Timeline

1985	Work on this object began.
2016	We acquired this object.
2018	We photographed this object.
2024	You found it!

Color Blanket

This is a Color blanket. It was designed by Stanley Tanenbaum. It is dated 1985 and we acquired it in 2016. Its medium is acrylic, nylon and its technique is double cloth. It is a part of the Textiles department.

A color blanket is a tool used by textile designers in the development and selection of a color palette. By crossing a variety of warp and weft combinations, the blanket shows a wide variety of solid and blended colors. Typically the designer or consultant, in this case Stanley Tanenbaum, would choose six to twelve samples from the blanket to put into production and offer to buyers. This blanket is of upholstery-weight nylon solids, probably for hotel or other commercial interior use.
Color blankets are of particular interest to Cooper Hewitt because teh reveal the process of developoing a color palette for production, demonstrate the complex interaction between color and weave structure, and provide a more visually dynamic was to exhibit solid-color fabrics.

This object was donated by American Textile History Museum. It is credited American Textile History Museum Collection, gift of Stanley Tanenbaum.

Color Blanket, Weaving Palettes
54% cotton, 30% solution-dyed nylon, 15% post-consumer recycled polyester.
Gift of Momentum Group.
2013-36-4

A twill woven cotton and merino wool blanket with twenty-five horizontal bands of color which increase and descrease in saturation in small block increments from one side to the other. The colors include violet, olive green, pink, pale blue and lemon yellow. At the top of the blanket the words [RAW COLOR, MULTITONE, INDEX COLLECTION] are printed in violet capital letters

Blanket, Index Collection, 2012
organic cotton warp, merino wool weft.
Gift of Raw Color.
2013-22-1

Poster depicts tapestry of printer control marks in various tones of magenta, purple, cyan, yellow, green, black and white. These marks are presented in circles, squares, rectangles, ovals, and lines. On the reverse side, the text advertises a series of exhibitions on editorial dsign helf in 2008 in the town of Chaumont, France.

Poster, Specimen
offset lithograph on paper.
Gift of Fanette Mellier.
2013-18-1

Its dimensions are

H x W: 528.3 × 135.9 cm (17 ft. 4 in. × 53 1/2 in.)

Cite this object as

Color Blanket; Designed by Stanley Tanenbaum; acrylic, nylon; H x W: 528.3 × 135.9 cm (17 ft. 4 in. × 53 1/2 in.); American Textile History Museum Collection, gift of Stanley Tanenbaum; 2016-35-85

Short URL http://cprhw.tt/o/2FYrnc/
Accession Number 2016-35-85
Object ID 1108711713