eisengarn
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thumb|A Marcel Breuer chair, with Grete Reichardt's 'eisengarn' fabric, 1927.
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thumb|A Marcel Breuer chair, with Grete Reichardt's 'eisengarn' fabric, 1927.
Eisengarn, meaning "iron yarn" in English, is a light-reflecting, strong, waxed-cotton thread. It was invented and manufactured in Germany in the mid-19th century, but owes its modern renown to its use in cloth woven for the tubular-steel chairs designed by Marcel Breuer while he was a teacher at the Bauhaus design school.