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. Balanced plaid in bright colors. Warp has stripes of green, two shades of yellow, two shades of orange, three shades of blue, and pink boucle. Weft has bands of nine different yarns, glossy, chenille, boucle and paired. Selvedge on left side.
- Credit Line
- Gift of the Estate of Dorothy Liebes Morin
- ca. 1942
- Accession Number
- 1972-75-24
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- woven textiles
- Sample card
- Medium
- Medium: cotton, silk, viscose rayon, wool, wool-viscose rayon blend Technique: 2/2 twill woven
- Dimensions
- H x W (sample): 24.5 × 17 cm (9 5/8 × 6 11/16 in.)
- H x W (card): 31.8 × 27.9 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_1972-75-24
- Metadata Usage (text)
- Not determined
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq4a6762124-fbe2-4e77-8a44-18df293c0273
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