In 1919 textile designer Anni Albers began her career in the renowned weaving workshop at the Bauhaus art school, where students were taught techniques geared toward industrial design and mass production. Alber's work reflects her interest in modernist abstraction inspired by theories of mathematical repetition. For this fabric, she created a triple weave that layers black threads over cream and red, producing a vibrating grid of lines, blocks, and striped units, with no identical rows.