The study investigates the performance of the modernist avant-garde painters in the field of textile design from 1910 to 1930. More precisely, in their proposals to defend and incorporate progressive, economic and technological effort of industrial civilization and secondly the search for a closer between the arts considered major and their integration into economic production, like the decor and clothing. Moreover, part of the hypothesis that these design objects can be treated as historical evidence, such as material culture, and can speak from their conception, their marketing and their use, the role of designer-artist at the time the art served in the development of symbolic goods in order to produce industrial wealth. The other perspective is to look at these as textile designs, as images, and these knowledge producers who speaks sense of social context, and the time they were designed. The study questions the indifference of the History of Art and Design in relation to this production, and the way they are being presented in exhibitions, as mere aesthetic objects. Failure to observe these projects as historical documents, leaves out important evidence of a time when the practice of design and art industry closer together.