Sample card
Object Details
- Designer
- Dorothy Wright Liebes, American, 1897–1972
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Woven sample mounted to a cardboard card with notations by the designer. Warp is a sequence of eight purple two-ply yarns in two different thicknesses, alternating with four metallic gold wrapped yarns. Weft is turquoise cotton chenille.
- Credit Line
- Gift of the Estate of Dorothy Liebes Morin
- 1938–39
- Accession Number
- 1972-75-20
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- woven textiles
- Sample card
- Medium
- Medium: cotton, wool, copper yarn Technique: 2/2 twill woven
- Dimensions
- H x W (sample): 19 × 20.5 cm (7 1/2 × 8 1/16 in.)
- H x W (card): 31.8 × 28 cm (12 1/2 in. × 11 in.)
- made in
- USA
- See more items in
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
- Textiles Department
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Record ID
- chndm_1972-75-20
- Metadata Usage (text)
- Not determined
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq42a4ce3ca-813c-4b38-ac10-e94defdf80f3
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