<img width="640" height="699" src="http://www.cooperhewitt.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/45405_a34569defeaabfbe_b-700x765.jpg" class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" alt="" style="display: block; margin-bottom: 5px; clear:both;max-width: 100%;" srcset="http://uh8yh30l48rpize52xh0q1o6i.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/45405_a34569defeaabfbe_b-700x765.jpg 700w, http://uh8yh30l48rpize52xh0q1o6i.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/45405_a34569defeaabfbe_b-275x300.jpg 275w, http://uh8yh30l48rpize52xh0q1o6i.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/45405_a34569defeaabfbe_b-170x186.jpg 170w, http://uh8yh30l48rpize52xh0q1o6i.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/45405_a34569defeaabfbe_b.jpg 937w" sizes="(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px" data-attachment-id="23666" data-permalink="http://www.cooperhewitt.org/2017/02/18/harmonious-color-and-texture/45405_a34569defeaabfbe_b/" data-orig-file="http://www.cooperhewitt.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/45405_a34569defeaabfbe_b.jpg" data-orig-size="937,1024" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="45405_a34569defeaabfbe_b" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="http://www.cooperhewitt.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/45405_a34569defeaabfbe_b-275x300.jpg" data-large-file="http://www.cooperhewitt.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/45405_a34569defeaabfbe_b-700x765.jpg" />Maria Kipp is considered to be the first woman in the United States to found a commercially successful hand-weaving enterprise. Born in a small town in Germany in 1900, she was the first woman to enter Munich’s Kunstgewerbe art school at age 18, then went on to be the first woman student of the Muenchberg...
