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Jacket	2005.1.11
Jacket - Navy blue with red and orange embroidery. Basket weave with embroidered threads over woven supplementary floats. Knotted buttons on front. Slits up the side. Lined with red satin material. Embroidered medallion on back and sleeves....View Full Record

Tunic	2005.1.12
Reversible tunic - Double weave with pulled thread work and multicolored bargello (needlework), cotton. One side is red with off white diamond pattern at neckline. Each diamond is embroidered with a different pattern. The other side is white with the mulitcolored Bargello embroidery....View Full Record

tunic	2005.1.14
Tunic - Lime green. Woven with yoke pattern. Faced and hemmed. Open square neckline. Cotton bias banding neckline hem. Split sides 6.5 inches....View Full Record

sampler	2005.1.15
Sampler - sample red, orange and navy blue. Illustrates 3 kinds of knot pile -The ghordes knot, spanish knot, and the sehna knot. Notecard on back with notes about weave. Cotton, wool, and synthetic....View Full Record

Sample, woven	07.4.3
8 Woven samples matted on two connected boards with one magazine print of Matisse goldfish bowl painting. Woven samples (especially color schemes) inspired by painting. Many colors including pink, purple, green, brown, red, blue, black, cream and brown....View Full Record

Sample	07.4.29
Bundle of 13 multicolored braided bands. These samples were used in 4th and 5th grade education projects, presumably by Susan Greene. Samples include square, flat and round braids and various finishes. The longest is 34 inches, the shortes is 6 inches. Mostly man made fibers, in various colors. 2 and 3 ply medium to heavy weight S twist yarns. One braid is embellished with yellow and green feathers....View Full Record

sample, woven	07.4.19
rug sample. Olive and dark green, mustard yellow, orange, coral, black and off-white. Note on tag reads "carpet for our stairs and hall". Two long cut ends secured with zig-zag machine stitch. Two shorter ends cut and fraying slightly. Warp is fully covered by weft (probably wool)....View Full Record

Sample, woven	07.4.2
Ten woven samples and 2 color images of Roualt painting, matted on four connected mat boards. Samples use the painting as inspiration, especially for color schemes which include black, peach, reds, greens, cream, ivory, burgandy and gold. Much of the weaving appears to be honeycomb....View Full Record

Fragment, woven	07.4.20
Fragment of a "stole, made into a top - felted badly" (according to note on the tag affixed to object). Cream colored, includes woven section with fringe, other edge is rough cut. Fringe border, then small section of plain weave, then twill derivative that produces diamond pattern....View Full Record

Sample, woven	07.4.21
Small blue, white and pink wool weaving sample. Edges unfinished. Fabric fulled and cut around. Tag attached to object reads "c. 1980. Made for skirt and vest. [smily face] - I actually wore it"....View Full Record

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