Object Details
- Designer
- Dorothy Wright Liebes, American, 1897–1972
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Twill variation in shades of blue and light purple. Warp has alternate light purple boucle yarns and light blue two-ply yarn. Weft has a band sequence of eight boucle cotton with narrow metallic yarn, three light blue synthetic, five light purple chenille, one metallic braid, three blue boucle with narrow metal yarn, one blue synthetic, one flat braided metallic yarn, three purple chenille, and two blue synthetic. The sequence repeats for a pattern unit. Some bands are 2/2 twill and some are 3/1 twill.
- Credit Line
- Gift of the Estate of Dorothy Liebes Morin
- ca. 1948
- Accession Number
- 1972-75-68
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- woven textiles
- Sample card
- Medium
- Medium: cotton, viscose rayon, viscose rayon-cellulose triacetate blend, cellulose acetate-laminated aluminum yarn, cellulose acetate butyrate-laminated aluminum yarn Technique: twill woven
- Dimensions
- H x W (card): 31.8 × 27.9 cm (12 1/2 in. × 11 in.)
- H x W (sample): 18.5 × 19 cm (7 5/16 × 7 1/2 in.)
- made in
- USA
- See more items in
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
- Textiles Department
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Record ID
- chndm_1972-75-68
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq4ac494d0e-3f9b-46d4-9f33-c2fcafe3a6e9
