An icon of German weaving art is the Bauhaus carpet by Gertrud Arndt from 1924, thus the current production is a world premiere. The detailed documentation from the Bauhaus Archive and the Arndt family were used as a model for the re-edition.

An icon of German weaving and the Bauhaus is the Bauhaus carpet No. 2 by Gertrud Arndt from 1924, because the single copy produced at that time was found in the office of the Bauhaus founder Walter Gropius in Weimar. This director's office also served as a showroom where works from the various workshops were presented to visitors (see fourth illustration). Walter Gropius' well thought-out architectural spatial composition formed a total work of art of various Bauhaus works; the basis was the square geometry of Gertrud Arndt's carpet. The designer carpets or Drechlse carpet were based on the detailed documentation from the Bauhaus Archive as well as Gertrud Arndt's family records as a source for the re-edition. The Bauhaus Carpet No. 2 consists of 192 hand-knotted specifically arranged squares, the basic colour spectra are different shades of blue and grey, which are broken towards the middle by light and dark yellow squares.

Gertrud Arndt began her studies at the Bauhaus in Weimar in autumn 1923. Actually, she wanted to become an architect, but she was - like many other Bauhaus students - assigned a place to study weaving. There she designed two carpets, one of which was used as a reference in the office of Walter Gropius. After finishing her studies she concentrated on photography. Together with her husband, the Bauhaus student Alfred Arndt, she went to Probstzella in Thuringia in 1927, where her husband was involved as an architect in the construction of the "Haus des Volkes". Two years later, the couple returned to the Bauhaus in Dessau after Alfred Arndt was appointed head of the extension workshop by the Bauhaus director Hannes Meyer in 1929. In Dessau, Gertrud Arndt then created a highly acclaimed series of photographic self-portraits.

The man who wrote the rules. After first enrolling to study architecture at the Technical University of Munich, Walter Gropius continued his studies at the University of Charlottenburg-Berlin, which he left in 1908 without completing his diploma. Gropius joined the office of Peter Behrens in the same year, where he worked alongside a number of architects who would become luminaries in their profession, including Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier, and Dietrich Marcks.

After working for Behrens for two years, Gropius established his own practice for architecture and industrial design in 1910. His output in this period included wallpapers, mass-produced interior furnishings, car bodies and even a diesel locomotive.

The Fagus Factory in Alfeld an der Leine, which he designed together with Adolf Meyer, would be his first major architectural work. With its transparent façade of steel and glass, this factory building is widely held to be a pioneering work of what later became known as »Modern Architecture« evolving eventually in the 1920s into the »Neues Bauen« or »New Objectivity« movement. The Fagus Factory was awarded UNESCO World Heritage status in June 2011.

After the First World War Gropius became a founding member of the Bauhaus: in 1919 he succeeded Henry van de Veldes as the Director of the Großherzoglich-Sächsischen Hochschule für Bildende Kunst in Weimar (Thuringia) and renamed the institute »Staatliches Bauhaus in Weimar«. Gropius held the office of Director in Weimar until 1926 and subsequently in Dessau. He was succeeded by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, who directed the Bauhaus until its closure in 1933. Gropius immigrated to England in 1934, following a smear campaign by the Nazis, who branded the Bauhaus a »Church of Marxism«. In 1937 he relocated to Cambridge, USA, where he served as a professor of architecture at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design.