After leaving Black Mountain in 1949, Albers moved with her husband to Connecticut, and set up a studio in her home. After being commissioned by Gropius to design a variety of bedspreads and other textiles for Harvard, and following the MoMA exhibition, Albers spent the 1950s working on mass-producible fabric patterns, creating the majority of her "pictorial" weavings, and publishing a half-dozen articles and a collection of her writings, "On Designing". In 1961, she was awarded the Craftmanship Medal by the American Institute of Architects.