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2.5 Yards unwashed, Uncut, crisp. Design ProfilePattern Name: "Avian"Designer: Harwood Steiger (1900–1980)Origin: Hand silk-screened at the artist's studio in Tubac, Arizona.Style & Motif "Avian" reflects a strong mid-century modernist approach influenced by indigenous woodblock art and tribal tapa designs.The Elements: It features stylized desert birds—most notably the Gambel’s quail with its iconic topknot plume—nested inside a bold, graphic grid.The Background: The birds are interspersed with alternating geometric blocks, abstract arrows, cross-hatching, and stylized foliage.The Colorway: This specific iteration features a deep espresso-brown pigment hand-screened over a warm, terracotta/salmon-pink mid-weight cotton ground, evoking the natural clay tones of the American Southwest.Production TechniqueThis piece was produced using the Steigers' signature small-batch method. Harwood manually hand-cut individual lacquer film stencils for the pattern blocks.