Marli Ehrman

After the couple emigrated to the United States she taught weaving at the School of Design in Chicago, gaining recognition when she won first prize for her furniture fabrics from New York's Museum of Modern Art (MoMA).

[citation needed] After attending the Westend-Schule (1912–21), she studied at the Bauhaus in Weimar, specializing in textile art at the weaving workshop in Dessau under Gunta Stölzl and graduating in 1927.

[1] After employment in the experimental department of the Bauhaus weaving workshop (1932–33), she taught at the state education centre in Selent and at the Herzl School in Berlin.

[1][2] In addition to teaching weaving and textile art, Ehrman participated in MoMA's contest for Organic Design in Home Furnishings, winning the first prize in 1941.

One of her most prominent clients was Mies van der Rohe who commissioned her to design a curtain fabric for his apartment buildings on Lake Shore Drive in Chicago.