Featured Help with silkscreen

Uncovered this and curious if anyone can help identify. Thank you!

 

Marimekko is a well known Finnish clothing brand (at least here in NW Europe). They design their own fabrics, which is why the name is printed on the side. They also design items for interior decorating.
This is one of their Modernist designs, a style they are famous for.

 

Looks like a piece of fabric that someone has mounted. Perhaps to use as wall art.

Does it say anything before "Marimekko" or to the right of the date?

Company is still in business, by the way.

 

Very well known in the US too! At least for women of a certain generation.

 

That's super. Very saleable, too.

 

A 1963 design. 'Melooni.'

https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/marimekko-fabric-melooni-1963-orange-red-huge

Debora

 

Thank you!

 

Doug, Marimekko has had a couple of relaunches, once in the 1980s and then again more recently when, as a part of which, they did a collaboration with Target. You'll want to do some research to see if your fabric panel is original to the 1963 or a reissue. (Obviously, the former will give it more value.)

https://www.marimekko.com/us_en/sale/all-sale?msclkid=280bf6ab9d371edf8175a8ebc7bc8535

Debora

 

It was quite the decorating rage when I first had an apartment. We bought wood stretcher bars at the art supply store and stapled the fabric onto them. They were lightweight, colorful and cheap and covered ugly walls nicely. There were a few shops in the Boston/Cambridge area where you could buy Marimekko fabric panels. Most of my friends decorated with them.

 

Hi,
They were very popular in the 1960s/70s. i had a lot of friends who had them hanging on their apartment walls.
greg