Arts Center Library | Thousand Islands Arts Center
Collection Database
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Sample
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01.5.28
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Sample - dark brown, grey and rust colored wool suiting fabric with small "dot" pattern....View Full Record
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Jacket
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01.5.4
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Overall blue tweed jacket. Yarns are deep royal blue, beige, light blue and pale orange. "Swing" style with sloped shoulder and integral sleeves (no sleeve seam). Slash pockets with semi-circular placket. "Closed placket" at sleeve openings. Collar, five buttonholes at center-front closure - one in collar. Side seams and center back seam.Buttons are deep royal blue with raise flower blossom motif. Grey rayon lining....View Full Record
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Sample
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86.3.4
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Fabric samples - small swatches mounted on 8 x 10" card. 22 swatches total. Plain weave solid cottons....View Full Record
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Yardage
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96.9.8
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Length of pink cloth. Warp is off-white natural wool. Weft is pale pink ribbon, pink single ply shiny yarn and deep pink chenille....View Full Record
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Sample, woven
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01.5.32
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Woven sample - Christmas tree, inlayed; navy blue with green tree and dark red stripe on top and bottom, some metallic threads....View Full Record
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Bag
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01.5.18
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Small woven bag - black, natural, and two shades of blue; diamond and stipe patterns; from Sweden; lining removed; linen and wool; one face has embroidered designs....View Full Record
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Runner, Table
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97.9.84
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Short and wide table runner. Background color is buff cotton with rows of undulating twill "swashes" in white cotton plied with "gold" metallic thread. Two selvedges and two finged ends.
Buff cotton in warp and weft. Pattern weft is cotton/metallic two ply yarn. Label on artifact reads "Handwoven/ by/ Lucille Landis / Old Greenwich , Conn."...View Full Record
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Skirt
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99.1.2
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Black wool box pleat skirt with horizontal decorative bands from hem to mid thigh. Decorative bands in varying shades of green and purple. Yarns in decorative bands vary in thickness and ply including boucle and green and silver metallics. Fabric is handwoven in plain weave and twill.
Back zipper enclosure with snap at waistband. Narrow hem at bottom end.
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Lace Fragment
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00.21.21
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Hand made lace sample/fragment, cream colored with floral pattern. Attached note says "English Origin, Kat stitch, not torchon". There is a longer note attached which describes the lace in more detail, "Handmade point of Paris, Kat stitch ground old linen?" but it is attached to the lace with thread and can't be unfolded unless thread is cut....View Full Record
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