Marguerita Mergentime: American Textiles, Modern Ideas Organization Each maker crafts a kinship

Each maker crafts a kinship with the land

and the designers’ own home

her design and the curators' essays weave parallel narratives throughout the book

Hasami Porcelain is made from a proprietary blend of clay and crushed stone from the historical village of Hasami in the Nagasaki prefecture of Japan

Marguerita Mergentime: American Textiles, Modern Ideas Organization Each maker crafts a kinshipMarguerita Mergentime: American Textiles, Modern Ideas serves as a definitive source on this lauded American designer. Working in the heady milieu of 1930s New York, Mergentime (1894 1941) became best known for strikingly new printed fabrics, making her mark with tablecloths created to enliven American households with color, humor and entertainment. A member of the influential American Union of Decorative Artists and Craftsmen (AUDAC), Mergentime was