Arts Center Library | Thousand Islands Arts Center
Collection Database
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Sampler
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86.5.72
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Sampler - rug rule on black warp with stripes of cotton print, black, orange, green and red wool; attached labels provide instructions for each stripe; long fringes at both warp ends. Plain weave....View Full Record
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Sample
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85.5.141
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Fabric sample - blue and white cotton woven in plain weave on crackle threading in three blocks. Note: Observe sleying which shows grouping of warp threads. Compare green and orange weft area for balance of warp and weft yarn sizes. Areas with poor selvedge and split shed are labeled.
Weft: heavy blue cotton...View Full Record
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Sampler
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85.5.142
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Sampler -grey, greens, blues, red, yellow weft stripes. Several treadlings in Rosepath in several yarn sizes and colors. Tagged, "Rosepath threading. Note seersucker effect of plain alternated with pattern. Rosepath. Plain vs. Pattern." Poorly woven.
Warp: Cotton, 10/2 grey
Weft: cotton 5/2 green, 10/2 red, blue and yellow....View Full Record
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Sampler
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85.5.144
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Sampler - White with multicolored blocks at one end. Woven in three blocks of Crackle, using several sizes and colors in weft. Tagged, "Crackle. Weft ends hanging. Wrong tabby."
Warp and weft: Cotton, 20/2 natural.
Pattern weft: Cotton, several sizes and colors....View Full Record
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Sample
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93.5.300
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Twill block weave and overshot. Warp is white cotton; weft is white cotton and blue wool.
Includes "profile draft."...View Full Record
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Sample
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93.5.303
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Sample of Summer and Winter weave. "Four Square". White cotton warp; weft of maroon floss. Includes draft....View Full Record
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Sampler
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85.5.146
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Sampler - white with multicolored stripes. Point twill, Rosepath weaves. Tagged, "Notice the comarative(sic) width of Tabby and pattern treadlings."
Warp: Cotton, 20/2 natural
Weft: cotton, variety of colors....View Full Record
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Tapestry
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93.11.1
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Tapestry - with open areas (unwoven) wool, flower design in center (blues, greens, pinks, yellow) and green frame-like border.
Weave: Tapestry
Count: EPI 11 double threads
Warp: wool, beige
Weft: wool, colors...View Full Record
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Fragment, woven
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93.5.2
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Coverlet fragment - Dark blue and natural; overshot weave, star and table pattern; two panels sewn together....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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