Arts Center Library | Thousand Islands Arts Center
Collection Database
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Sample
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93.5.294a
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Sample of overshot. White cotton warp; white cotton tabby with red rayon pattern weft....View Full Record
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Sample
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85.3.163
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Fabric Samples (2) - Yellow Tensolite furnishing fabrics (for casement). Lace and plain weave....View Full Record
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Fragment, woven
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93.5.20A
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Coverlet fragment - Dark blue and white/natural. Overshot coverlet, star and table type pattern. Attached notecard has weaving draft of a star and table type pattern. Note reads, "Above threading different from draft #191 Shuttlecraft Book of American Handweaving which in turn illustrates [illegible word] as in attached fabric."...View Full Record
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Sample
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93.5.251
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This sample, though finished on both warp ends, includes one selvedge and an unfinished, cut side. Light beige-colored cotton warp and light beige and natural cotton weft with supplemental pink wool weft in cannele ondule. "P126 Le Metier a Quatre" notation on acid-free mounting. Fine hand hemstitching....View Full Record
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Sampler
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93.5.215
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Small sample in overshot weave. Ecru linen warp and ground weft. Sample is in four sections. Lower three sections have pattern of rectangular bands of burgundy wool. Upper, smaller section has rectangular bands of red and purple wool. One selvedge, one cut edge and two fringe ends....View Full Record
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Yardage
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93.5.214b
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Woven yardage identical to that of scarf catalogued as 93.5.214a. Navy and Wedgewood blue wool warp and weft; unknown weave structure (possibly twill variation); navy stripes in weft at each end; fringe at one end and open at other end that is slightly fraying....View Full Record
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Purse
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93.5.205
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Drawstring purse with white cotton warp and werft of white cotton, metallic rick-rack and rayon. Drawstring is thick white two ply white cotton; no tassels....View Full Record
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Sample
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93.5.296
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Sample of overshot weave. White cotton warp. Red wool pattern weft with white cotton tabby. One selvedge. Mounted on card....View Full Record
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Purse
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93.5.206
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Pink and white plain weave drawstring purse. White cotton, white synthetic fiber ribbon, and white synthetic boucle warp. Nylon cord and pink rayon weft. Drawstring is white cord; no tassel. Stitched closure at base....View Full Record
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Runner, Table
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85.5.124
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Runner - Gold color with stylized long-tailed birds standing on columns, trees in\between, also small birds and geometric pattern borders. Hand embroidered and hand picked-up. Commercially Handwoven for Guatemalan tourist trade (?).
Weave is plain weave with inlay.
Warp: cotton, natural singles, handspun?
Weft: cotton, gold. Pattern weft: multicolored.
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