ALICE KAGAWA PARROTT SANTA FE HANDWOVEN WOOL HOODED ART JACKET




Item History & Price

Information:
Reference Number: Avaluer:442374Size: Large (up to 60in.)
Technique: WeavingArtist: Alice Kagawa Parrott
Date of Creation: 1950-1969Style: Americana
Year: 1947-1968Listed By: Owner
Color: redsMaterial: 100% Wool
Subject: Textile stripesQuantity Type: Single-Piece Work
Originality: Original
Original Description:
Famous Santa Fe artist Alice Kagawa Parrott -- gorgeous 1960's vintage and colorful hand woven and constructed wool jacket with seven inch zipper and hood!  Talk about art to wear!  To display, or wear, it has beautiful colors!  Viewing closely, within each colored stripe, most if not all have two colors interwoven to make the stripe color.  
Alice Parrott spun her own yarns with wool from New Mexico and Nevada, and made her own natural dyes using local mate...rial!
Labeled -- parrott fabrics inc., handwoven in santa fe
Excellent vintage condition.  The zipper works very easily (maybe a nylon zipper).  Even the red color on the zipper handle is great -- no color scraped off!  The wool appears to not have any holes (I held it up to the light).  But, the back of the left sleeve elbow area has some brownish marks that are only on the surface of the wool (not absorbed into the yarn).  I can feel and scrape them with my fingernail, and it seemed like a little came off.  Also, a mark on the side of the left front.  They only appear to me on close inspection and I bet can easily be taken off, maybe by yourself, a very trusted dry cleaner or textile professional.
Approximate measurements -- The jacket appears to be a "one size fits most" -- Chest or bust area is 32 inches across (measured from where the angled inset "pit" piece connects to the sleeve); 7 inch zipper;  26 inches long (measured from the zippered neckline down);  21 inches wide (measured across, starting below the angled inset piece connecting the sleeve to the body); 18 inch sleeves.  Hope this makes sense?  
Alice Kagawa Parrott (February 12, 1929 – September 11, 2009) was a Japanese American fiber artist and ceramicist.  She spent most of her adult life in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where she established a reputation as one of the country's most important weavers, and opened one of Santa Fe’s first shops devoted to weaving and crafts.  She graduated from the University of Hawaii at Manoa in 1952, and then attended Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, where she studied weaving with Marianne Strengell and minored in ceramics with Maija Grotell.  There she met fellow Hawaiian ceramic artist Toshiko Takaezu and began a lifelong friendship.  She also studied ceramics with Marguerite Wildenhain.  Sam Maloof used her weavings in some of his furniture and even wore shirts she wove for him!



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