Sample card
Object Details
- Designer
- Dorothy Wright Liebes, American, 1897–1972
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Symmetrical 2/2 horizontal herringbone twill in shades of blue and purple. Warp is two-ply blue yarns that alternate. Weft is purple chenille that alternates with two-ply purple yarn combined with narrow synthetic blue metallic yarn.
- Credit Line
- Gift of the Estate of Dorothy Liebes Morin
- ca. 1949
- Accession Number
- 1972-75-72
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- woven textiles
- Sample card
- Medium
- Medium: cotton, silk, wool-viscose rayon blend, cellulose acetate butyrate-laminated aluminum yarn Technique: 2/2 twill woven
- Dimensions
- H x W (sample): 23.5 × 17.4 cm (9 1/4 × 6 7/8 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_1972-75-72
- Metadata Usage (text)
- Not determined
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq48ebbc735-6a54-4a88-95ca-bcc825d881a9
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