Featured Image: Mexican Plaid textile, ca. 1938; Designed by Dorothy Wright Liebes (American, 1897-1972); Twill-woven wool, cotton, silk, viscose rayon, nylon, cellulose triacetate, viscose rayon-cellulose triacetate blend, CA- and CAB-laminated aluminum yarns, cellulose triacetate-laminated aluminum yarn, cellophane; Gift of the Estate of Dorothy Liebes Morin; Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, 1972-75-1; Photo: Matt Flynn © Smithsonian Institution.