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Collection Database
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Fragment, woven
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93.5.15
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Fragment of a wool blanket. Light brown with dark brown stripe. 3/3 Twill weave, 6 shafts. Warp is light brown and dark brown wool singles. Weft is the same....View Full Record
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Mat, Table
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93.5.141
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Green table mat with grid design of pearly light green yarns. Plain weave center fields with lacy weave grid.
Warp threads are off white cotton. Weft threads are pearly, light green man made three ply yarn....View Full Record
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Towel, Fingertip
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93.5.125
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Orange finger towel. White cotton warp and orange cotton weft. Overall pattern in weft-faced huck weave. Handstitched hems....View Full Record
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Sample
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93.5.126
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Sample of plain weave in brown wool with orange accent and scattered colored slubs.
Warp threads are brown, light brown and orange two ply S twist woolen yarn. Weft is same. Colored slubs are green, yellow and red. Two selvedges and two fringed edges, one of which is hemstitched....View Full Record
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Sample
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93.5.128
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Tan and brown cotton sample in Summer and Winter weave. Warp and tweft in tan with pattern weft in brown. Hemmed on one side; fringed on the other. Two selvedges....View Full Record
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Sample
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93.5.129
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Small off-white sample of lacey weaves mounted on card. Unmercerized natural cotton in warp and weft with a wide border woven in Spanish lace. Two narrow bands of Leno.
Note on card reads: "Project No 4 / Miss Frey / Lace weaves. Spanish + Leno / Problem 29. / Greek lace / Nora O'Finger. "...View Full Record
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Sampler
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93.5.130
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Small sampler mounted on card. Four Spanish lace inlays in plain weave of unmercerized natural colored cotton warp with a darker natural cotton weft and mercerized, heavier yarns inlaid. Two selvedges and two unfinished edges, one with long fringe....View Full Record
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Altarpiece
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93.5.132
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Long narrow cloth with long fringes at either end. Heavy white natural cotton in warp and weft with a hand-manipulated ecclesiastical symbol on one side. Symbol is 'P" with "X" across middle. Weft is thinner and darker on one part of the total length. On one end, the one with the symbol, is an interesting hand-finished hem. The other end is just overcast....View Full Record
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Doily
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93.5.134
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Large round mat in plain weave. Warp and weft are linen in natural color. Some hand-stitched openwork bands in a variety of lengths and a hand-finished fringe in a circle....View Full Record
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Mat, Table
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93.5.139
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Placemat woven with weft of bamboo slats and twine. Warp is cotton in two natural tints and one green....View Full Record
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