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1959-64
Rug Designs

Albers designed several rugs and relied on experts for their execution. She collaborated with Gloria Finn Dale, who made hooked rugs designed by contemporary artists for modern homes “to restore the rug to its former glory as a work of beauty.” In a true collaboration, Albers laboriously transferred her design for a nylon rug onto its support and Dale hooked the rug in nylon. It was exhibited in Albers’s 1959 exhibition at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Commissioned that year to design a rug for the living room of a client “who wants to make it [himself] for their home,” Albers took her cue from the irregular stonework patterns of the room’s fieldstone wall and fireplace and created a design that had no straight lines.

In 1964, Albers again worked with Dale to execute a more formal design for a newly completed Connecticut home. With its precise lines and heavy linen base “it should become a family heirloom,” Albers wrote.