Designer:

Dorothy Wright Liebes, American, 1897–1972  Search this

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.)

Type:

woven textiles

Sample card

Made in:

USA

Date:

ca. 1949

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

Accession Number:

1972-75-69

Restrictions & Rights:

Usage conditions apply

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Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection

Textiles Department

Data Source:

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq451cf3af7-9a8e-4e78-9b83-ec62956cac6a

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:chndm_1972-75-69