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. Wide vertical bands, one primarily red and the other with black predominating. Warp is of single red bouclé yarns and paired black plied yarns. Weft is red plied yarn, black smooth yarn, and flat copper metallic strips paired with metallic gold wrapped yarns in regular sequence.
- Credit Line
- Gift of the Estate of Dorothy Liebes Morin
- ca. 1942
- Accession Number
- 1972-75-26
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- woven textiles
- Sample card
- Medium
- Medium: cotton, viscose rayon, wool, cellulose acetate-laminated aluminum yarn, cellulose acetate butyrate-laminated aluminum yarn Technique: 2/2 twill woven with paired and unpaired warps
- Dimensions
- H x W (sample): 20.3 × 19.7 cm (8 in. × 7 3/4 in.)
- H x W (card): 32 × 28 cm (12 5/8 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_1972-75-26
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq40a8d60cb-7551-4006-a9ce-0fff81201735
