Adèle Coulin Weibel

Adèle Coulin Weibel (April 2, 1880 – July 29, 1963) was a Swiss art historian and curator. She was a specialist in the history of textiles at the Detroit Institute of Arts from 1927 until 1963.

Early life and education Weibel was born in Lucerne, the daughter of lawyer and politician Josef Leonz Weibel. She also lectured at other museums. While in Detroit, Weibel taught courses at Wayne State University. "They took my job away from me, but they can't make me quit working," she told a 1951 interviewer.

Publications Most of Weibel's publications were reports on the Detroit Institute of Arts textile collections, for the institute's monthly bulletin. Her major work was her book, Two Thousand Years of Textiles: The Figured Textiles of Europe and the Near East (1952). "Italian Textiles" (1929) "Costumes of the Japanese Nó" (1929) "A Collection of Laces and Embroideries Fifteenth to Eighteenth Century" (1930) "Egypto-Islamic Textiles" (1931) "Eros Triumphant" (1935) "A Fragment of Hellenistic Wool Tapestry" (1936) "Persian Fabrics" (1936) "The Elsberg Collection of Peruvian Textiles" (1940) "Textile Art in Guatemala" (1941) 2000 Years of Silk Weaving (1944, exhibition catalog) "A Persian Silk Double Cloth" (1947) "Tapestries by Franz and Jacob Geubels" (1947) "The Fechimer Collection" (1948) "An Eighteenth Century Costume" (1949, with Francis Waring Robinson) "Three Brocades by Philippe de Lassalle" (1950) "Mehmet Aga-Oglu (1896-1949)" (1951) Two Thousand Years of Textiles: The Figured Textiles of Europe and the Near East (1952) "An Embroidery of the Eastern Orthodox Church" (1955)

Personal life Weibel married and divorced Swiss lawyer and politician Alois Moser; their daughter was artist . Weibel became a United States citizen. Moser painted a portrait of Weibel in 1934. Weibel died in 1963, at the age of 83. The Adèle Coulin Weibel Textile Department records are held by the Detroit Institute of Arts Research Library & Archives.