Arts Center Library | Thousand Islands Arts Center
Collection Database
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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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Yardage
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99.10.10
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Heavy linen yardage in stripes of brown, black, purpole and light brown. Broken twill. Hand-lettered paper label says: "Finland - / Handwoven / Linen / 2 yds. long"
Two selvedges and two raw ends....View Full Record
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Sample
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86.3.5
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Fabric samples - small swatches mounted on 8 x 10" card. 2 swatches total. Blue and green houndstooth....View Full Record
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Hanging
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97.9.92
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Long narrow wall hanging. Warp is off-white pearl cotton and weft is mustard yellow wool. Woven pattern is of vertical rows of ovals. Ms and Os? Plain weave hem at either end of the pearl cotton. Wooden dowel through one of these hems....View Full Record
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Sample
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98.5.32
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Double weave and leno sample in red, yellow, orange, and purple. Heavy filling yarns, varied in thickness. Second layer visible under leno weave. Warp cotton, weft wool. Two finished and basted hems....View Full Record
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lace
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00.21.14
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Two handmade? lace fragments. Both white with square patterns. One has large squares with empty centers. The other has a pattern of 3 squares repeated but alternating orientation, and a scalloped edge on one side.
Attached note says it is lace braiding not torchon lace....View Full Record
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lace
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00.21.13
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Handmade lace fragment. White color. French torchon. There is a note attached which comments on why it is thought to be handmade, but the handwriting is difficult to read....View Full Record
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Lace Fragment
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00.21.24
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Lace fragment, cream colored with wavy lines and one scalloped edge. Attached note reads "Handmade Bedfordshire"...View Full Record
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Hanging
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97.9.95c
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Small art hanging of greenish yellow background with three abstract shapes in orange with flecks of white, dark orange, pink and black. Trailed over all is thread of white and gold metallic 2-ply yarn. Scattered berads on 2-ply yarn in "gold."
Two selvedges and two hems....View Full Record
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