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In October 1928 the first art exhibition of Soviet domestic textiles opened in Moscow. Exhibitors included textile factories and their designers, schools, students, and working faculty members. After the Civil War Soviet people direly needed in the new functional clothing for every occasion such as industrial work clothes, sporting garments, or specialized labor uniforms. That's why the textile industry was among the most successful Soviet socialist economy enterprises. It was mostly female artist-designers, who were promoting productivism, scientific design and manufacturing for the socialist cause. For example, Lyudmila Mayakovskaya, textile designer, a pioneer of the "aerograph" technique of textile airbrushing and the elder sister of the poet V. Mayakovsky, and Varvara Stepanova, an artist and A. Rodchenko's wife, participated in this exhibition. Furthermore, Stepanova was the only avant-gardist designer entering the field of textiles at that time who had any… Read More