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COLLECTIVE THREADS

Anna Andreeva (1917-2008) was a Soviet textile designer and leading artist at the famous Red
Rose Silk Factory in Moscow from 1944 to 1984. The former Giraud silk factory  nationalized in
1919 after the October Revolution and renamed to commemorate the murdered Polish-German
socialist revolutionary Rosa Luxemburg  became a site of collective female design labor that
shaped the fashion and material culture of late socialism. Andreeva's spectacular patterns
range from abstract and geometric to cosmic and space-age and to pictorial themes of the city
of Moscow and Russian folk art. Her mass-produced designs were among the most popular textile
prints distributed within the USSR in the 1960s and 1970s.     Collective Threads contributes
to the recent intensive interest in textile art by continuing the feminist emphasis on woman
makers but shifting the focus from handmade women's craft to a different model of
industrial-scale textile production deliberately organized along collective lines within the
Communist system. It showcases Andreeva's outstanding art through reproductions of her drawings
sketches  and historic fabric samples as well as documents from the Red Rose factory  Soviet
fashion magazines  and images of local and international exhibition designs. Essays contributed
by international scholars  curators  and critics place Andreeva's work and career in a
historical and artistic context.

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