Arts Center Library | Thousand Islands Arts Center
Collection Database
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Towel, hand
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85.5.187
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Towel fragment - white with narrow decorative border bands in red. Tagged, "Old Commercially woven hand towel to show the tension problem in alternating tabby and pattern areas." Ruth Holroyd's note on catalog card, "the puckering is caused more by laundering than the weaving."
Weave: Huck
Warp: white cotton
Weft: same
Pattern weft: cotton, faded red....View Full Record
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fragment, woven
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93.5.16A
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Coverlet fragment - Natural cotton and black (which appears dark brown). Overshot weave. Pattern is Methodist Wheel, Whig Rose (clusters of roses and wheels). One selvedge.
(A) Warp is set at 37 epi. weft is black, but appears dark brown.
Observation on catalog card reads, "Band was cut lengthwise up the middle, A is one side with selvedge, and B is the other side with selvedge. The selvedge threadings are different."...View Full Record
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Sampler
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85.5.189
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Sampler - multicolor honeysuckle variations on natural plain weave. 3/4" hems, turned back and hand-hemmed.
Warp and weft: 20/2 cotton, natural
Pattern weft: variety of colors and twists....View Full Record
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Mat, Table
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93.5.169
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Off white table mat of plain weave linen. Side border decorative motifs in hand-manipulated Leno forming tiny lines in symetrical groupings....View Full Record
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Towel, hand
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85.5.190
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Towel - cream colored with narrow band of black, green, gold, blue and orange stripes at each end. Tagged with some details about weave, but catalog card notes it needs further analysis. 2" hems at both ends.
Weave: unknown
Warp: Cotton, cream
Weft: Cotton, cream
Pattern weft: cotton, in colors listed above....View Full Record
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Handkerchief
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93.5.168
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Cream silk , plain weave with woven lace border of Leno at both hems. 2 selvedges. Lacy, rectangular woven pattern at edge, 1/16th of an inch wide at one side; 3/16ths wide at the other....View Full Record
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Handkerchief
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93.5.167
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Plain weave cream colored silk warp and weft. Leno lacy weave edge, 1 cm showing pattern of long rectangles on one end only. The opposite end has 2 rows of leno....View Full Record
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Placemat
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85.5.193
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Placemat - brown and cream plain weave with geometric figures in a rectangular pattern....View Full Record
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Antimacassar
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93.5.166
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Plain weave with warp and weft in light beige silk. Wide band at bottom with floral and scroll motif in Leno weave. Two selvedges and two handstitched hems....View Full Record
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Sample, woven
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85.5.196a-b
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Sample in two pieces - Natural with multicolored stripes woven in Overshot using modern treadlings. Tagged, "Modern Overshot" with reference to book (see Related).
Warp: Cotton, 20/2 natural
Weft: same.
Pattern weft: novelty cotton, brown, red/oragne; cotton 10/2, green, light blue, tan and black....View Full Record
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