A carpet resource. (Design Notes).

Over the course of his long and prolific career, Frank Lloyd Wright designed hundreds of buildings and their interior embellishments, from stained-glass windows to furniture, lighting fixtures, wall coverings, and textiles. The archives of the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation in Scottsdale, Arizona, are a testament to his enormous output, for they contain more than one hundred thousand letters and twenty-one thousand drawings. Never bashful, Wright also granted hundreds of interviews, delivered lectures, and published articles and books about his work and aesthetic philosophy Because he was concerned about the appearance of his interiors down to the last drawer pull, it is not surprising that he had strong opinions about the textiles he designed. lie wrote that "Floor coverings and hangings are at least as much a part of the house as the plaster on the walls or the tiles on the roof."

His adherence to this edict is apparent in his correspondence with the noted textile designer Loja Saarinen, who ran the weaving workshop at the Cranbrook Academy of Art near Detroit. He asked her to weave the carpets for the Pittsburgh office of one of his most ardent patrons, ...