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Placemat	93.5.140
Placemat in plain weave. Warp is off-white cotton, teal cotton and off-white chenille. Weft includes wood or reed slats and off white cotton....View Full Record

Purse	93.5.199
Clutch style purse of white and yellow yarns. Warp is white cotton warp. Weft is thick , pale yellow cotton, gold colored metallic threads and white rayon.....View Full Record

Sampler	87.6.43
Twill sampler in varying shades of red and one pink. Separate sections of sampler are delineated with a grey yarn through warp and yellow yarn in weft. Deep burgundy header still present. Two selvedges and two fringed edges. Old card notes "color effects in 8-harness wool twill"....View Full Record

Sample	87.6.78
Brown, green and orange woolen sample of Crackle weave. Overall design of stepped squarew, one set in orange on brown, a second set in green on brown. Warp threads are two plyue S twist brown and light brown. Seft threads include the orang and green as well as the two browns. Weft threads are thickened by including three threads per shot. One selvedge, and three cut edges reinforced with machine stitching....View Full Record

Sampler	87.6.79
Small multicolored sampler for overshot mounted on card. Warp and tabby threads are fine, two ply Z twist linen. Pattern weft threads are cotton floss in aqua, beige, buff, orange, yellow and deep blue. One selvedge, three raw cut edges with some irregular machine stitching to stop fraying....View Full Record

Sample	87.6.83
Small sample of Summer and Winter weave in natural cotton and burgundy. Main pattern motif looks like two block letter "c"s set face to face. Sample is mounted on card with a red, off white and black sample. Warp and tabby threads are a fine two ply Z twist natural cotton. Pattern weft threads are burgundy two ply Z twist cotton....View Full Record

Sample	87.6.84
Small rectangular sample in red, natural cotton, black and gren. Mounted on card with 87.6.83. Warp and tabby threads are very fine two ply S twist natural cotton. Most pattern weft is deep red wool. Lower border shows a different weave in grey, red and black wool checks. Paper tag has ink inscription: "Boulevard / Weave / - Shuttlecraft / Bulletin / February '54." ...View Full Record

Sample	87.6.85
Sample of twill weave. Warp is dark green, brown, and bright green wool. The brown yarn has orange spun into it. Selvedge on one side. Dark green wool weft....View Full Record

Cloth Fragment	87.6.86a,b
Fragement "a" is large and rectangular. Fragment "b" is L-shaped. Both in greenish yellow shiny synthetic yarns and cotton. Design of light and dark horizontal bands with darker bands in twill. Repeat of one wide dark band flanked by two narrow dark bands. Warp consits of cotton and synthetic yarns in three weights and varying plys and twists. Weft is same. Selvedges and raw edges. Old paper tag attached to "a" inscribed in ink: "L.41.62.1" Old catalog card reads: "Originally had label reading 'berta frey handwoven fabrics instruction' " and "Date of Mfr: 1941."...View Full Record

Sample	87.6.89a, b
Sample of upholstery-weight fabric. Warp is beige carpet yarn warp, epi 16. Weft is beige and brown heavy and fine yarns with novelty yarns at 16 ppi. Stored with notes and draft and treadling diagram....View Full Record

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