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| Riva Helfond, Curtain Factory, 1937 |
In the
1930s Riva Helfond had a studio in New York’s Garment District.
From her
window she could look across the street and see women working in a sweatshop
with lots of billowing white and pastel-colored fabrics. It piqued her
curiosity because she couldn’t figure out what they were making. Her first
thought was formal wear or wedding and bridesmaids dresses but the material seemed
wrong for the styles of the day.
Finally,
one day Helfond crossed the street and walked up the stairs to find a curtain
factory. In one form or another seamstresses appeared in her work over the next
two decades.
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