Sample card
Object Details
- Designer
- Dorothy Wright Liebes, American, 1897–1972
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Plain weave plaid with paired and unpaired warps in shades of blue, gold and metallic gray. Warp is sixteen two-ply blue cotton yarns and eight wrapped metallic yarns alternating across the warp. Weft is a repeating unit of fourteen textured two-ply cotton turquoise yarn, one gray metallic braid, six blue synthetic yarns and one gray metallic braid.
- Credit Line
- Gift of the Estate of Dorothy Liebes Morin
- ca. 1949
- Accession Number
- 1972-75-69
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- woven textiles
- Sample card
- Medium
- Medium: cotton, viscose rayon, silk, cellulose acetate-laminated aluminum yarn, cellulose acetate butyrate-laminated aluminum yarn Technique: plain weave
- Dimensions
- H x W (sample): 19 × 18 cm (7 1/2 × 7 1/16 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_1972-75-69
- Metadata Usage (text)
- Not determined
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq451cf3af7-9a8e-4e78-9b83-ec62956cac6a
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