Crafts CouncilDirectoryMarilyn RathboneBauhaus BraidsAboutKandinsky, Bauhaus artist and lecturer, saw colours and as shapes. Numbers can be shapes, too. Colours, shapes and numbers combine in the creation of a set of three fine silk braids: triangular numbers (yellow, “sharp”, edgy); square numbers (red, “earthbound”, balanced); and circular numbers (blue, “spiritual”, the colour of the heavens).Marilyn RathboneWorthing, EnglandBauhaus Braids, Marilyn RathboneMaterials: silk thread, grey board, acrylic paint, paperCircular Numbers, Marilyn RathboneA circular number is also known as a curious number. It is a number whose square ends in the same digits as the number, itself.Bauhaus Braids, detail, Marilyn RathboneBauhaus Braids, Triangular Numbers, Marilyn RathboneA triangular number is also known as a triangle number. It is a number that can be represented by a triangular array.Bauhaus Braids, Square Numbers, Marilyn RathboneA square number is also known as a perfect square. It is the number produced by multiplying an integer by itself.Bauhaus BraidsAboutKandinsky, Bauhaus artist and lecturer, saw colours and as shapes. Numbers can be shapes, too. Colours, shapes and numbers combine in the creation of a set of three fine silk braids: triangular numbers (yellow, “sharp”, edgy); square numbers (red, “earthbound”, balanced); and circular numbers (blue, “spiritual”, the colour of the heavens).Marilyn RathboneWorthing, EnglandBauhaus Braids, Marilyn RathboneMaterials: silk thread, grey board, acrylic paint, paperBauhaus Braids, Triangular Numbers, Marilyn RathboneA triangular number is also known as a triangle number. It is a number that can be represented by a triangular array.Circular Numbers, Marilyn RathboneA circular number is also known as a curious number. It is a number whose square ends in the same digits as the number, itself.Bauhaus Braids, Square Numbers, Marilyn RathboneA square number is also known as a perfect square. It is the number produced by multiplying an integer by itself.Bauhaus Braids, detail, Marilyn RathboneMore from Marilyn RathboneProjectWaterhouse Natural History Art Prize, South Australian Museum, Adelaide, 2009ProjectSix Degrees of SeparationProjectEquivalent IXProject100 Metres DashProjectThe British Textile Art Exhibition 62@50, Tokyo, Japan, 2014ProjectPi in the SkyProjectVlieseline Fine Art Textiles Award for Most Innovative use of Textiles, 2019ProjectRibbonacci