Modern art icons - Gunta Stölzl (part 1)

Gunta Stölzl (1897-1983) was a German textile artist who ran the Bauhaus's weaving workshop for many years and helped shape its distinctive look. Her designs and leadership helped modernize the weaving workshop and make it the most commercially successful part of the Bauhaus, but she was only hired after agitation and campaigning by the students, even though she had been running the weaving workshop in all but name for years and had been responsible for it bringing in more money than any other department. She still was never given benefits or a permanent contract.

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Favorite quotes from Walter Scott's The Monastery

• “[Y]ou twa will be as thick as three in a bed an ance ye forgather.” [You two will be as thick as three in a bed once you get together.]



• “Then the gentleman is a scholar, David?”
  
  “I'se uphaud him a scholar,” answered David: “he has a black coat on, or a brown ane, at ony-rate.” [I'd bet he's a scholar; he has a black coat on, or a brown one, at any rate.]
  
  “Is he a clergyman?”
  
  “I am thinking no, for he looked after his horse's supper before he spoke o' his ain,” replied mine host.



• “I wish him no worse lesson,” said the Sacristan, “than to go swimming merrily down the river with a ghost behind, and Kelpies, night-crows, and mud-eels, all waiting to have a snatch at him."



• The Scottish laws, which were as wisely and judiciously made as they were carelessly and ineffectually executed,



• “Alas! sir,” answered Dame Elspeth, “he is but too prompt, an you talk of promptitude, at any thing that has steel at one end of it, and mischief at the other.”



• "He is a considerate lord the Lord Abbot.”
  
  “And weel he likes a saft seat to his hinder end,” said Tibb; “I have seen a belted baron sit on a bare bench, and find nae fault." [And well he likes a soft seat for his hind end.]



• “And would he fight with Foster in the Church's quarrel?”
  
  “On any quarrel, or upon no quarrel whatever."