Sample for a Woven Blind
Object Details
- Designer
- Dorothy Wright Liebes, American, 1897–1972
- Weaver
- Ralph Higbee
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Sample of a woven window blind with rigid wefts. Warps are spaced and striped blue and green on one side and red on the other with gold in center. Wefts are alternately a half round, half-inch dowel and a full round one-eighth inch diameter white reed.
- Credit Line
- Gift of the Estate of Dorothy Liebes Morin
- 1956
- Accession Number
- 1972-75-9
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- woven textiles
- Object Name
- Sample
- Type
- Sample
- Medium
- Medium: cellulose triacetate, cotton, nylon, viscose rayon, silk, cellulose acetate-laminated aluminum yarn, cellulose acetate butyrate-laminated aluminum yarn, wood Technique: hand woven plain weave
- Dimensions
- H x W: 46 x 117.5 cm (18 1/8 x 46 1/4 in.)
- made in
- USA
- See more items in
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
- Textiles Department
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Record ID
- chndm_1972-75-9
- Metadata Usage (text)
- Not determined
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq4a3f5ab17-ccc0-4965-8e66-3a4e471565b0
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