Arts Center Library | Thousand Islands Arts Center
Collection Database
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Cover, Cushion
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93.8.6
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Red cushion cover in stripes of irregular widths and thicknesses. Woven with natural linen warp and wool/synthetic weft yarns. Weft yarns are thick; reds and burgundy in varying weaves and piles.
Handstitiched seams and hems. Paper label attached for "chrepov ltd. / fiber arts / lancaster . pennsylvania (717) 569-7425....View Full Record
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Skirt
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93.8.4
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Knee-length full skirt with soft pleats in black, grey and silver vertical stripes. Yarns vary in width and include boucle, chenille, and "silver" metallic. Plain weave.
Center-back zipper closure. Paper label reads: "cherepov ltd. / lancaster - pennslvania / (717) 569-7425 / - partners - [and on overleaf] Eva Behrens / visionary art / fiber art / lancaster - pennsylvania / (717) 560-4371 / - partners -"...View Full Record
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Skirt
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93.8.3
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Knee-length straight skirt with wide vertical bands of blue in varying shades. Double weave with second warp of black wool yarn. Weft yarns are varied from coarse yarns to fine threads with many boucle yarns. Colors include deep, medium and light blue and black.
Slit in back, Back center zipper closure with wide metal hook at waistband. Black rayon lining. Small gathers into waistband. Maker's label reads: "cherepov ltd. / handwoven fabrics / greenwich - connecticut"...View Full Record
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Binder, Swatch
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86.1.287
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Blue vinyl-covered binder containing fabric swatches in plain weave and twill weave. Sub category is "Furnishing Fabrics."...View Full Record
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sample, woven
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86.4.156
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Fabric sample - brown, red, and blue bands of wool in warp, white wool weft. Straight, warp-faced twill weave. This fabric sample is cut into two pieces (86.4.156 and 85.4.39), attached to cardstock....View Full Record
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Placemat
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85.5.228
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Placemat - salmon and natural plain weave squares with Bronson lace. Block A creates plain weave in the natural square and lace in the orange. Block B is the reverse.
Warp: striped warp, natural and light orange cotton, 30/2
EPI: 30
Weft: Same as warp, woven to square....View Full Record
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Sample
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86.4.246
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Fabric sample - semi bleached linen, Bronson lace weave (8 thread count)....View Full Record
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rug
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85.5.284
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Rug, woven. Rug techniques in log cabin using brown and multicolor warp. (various colors including yellow and blue, green). Cotton. 12 epi
Warp: 8/4 cotton, browns, blue, green, yellow
Weft: tabby: 4/4 cotton, brown pattern, rug filler.
Weft: pattern: rug filler brown.
Exhibited in 5/1987....View Full Record
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Sampler
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85.5.210
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Sampler - plain weave natural cotton with multicolor stripes, selvedge to selvedge and laid in. Hems are 5/8", turned back and hand stitched.
Weave: Plain weave with inlay.
Warp: 10/2 cotton, natural
Weft: same, plus 10/2 brown, yellow, orange, green, blue....View Full Record
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lace
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86.2.129
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Lace insertion; white cotton muslin with machine hemstitched central stripe. Attached "Lord & Taylor" tag 25 cents....View Full Record
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