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Scrapbook of textile swatches
Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Thick volume with 320 hand-numbered pages. Heavy brown paper wrapper covers the outside. Textile swatches are adhered to both sides of the page. In general there are 2-4 swatches on each page, sometimes only one swatch fills the page. Small printed labels appear at the top of some pages, indicating the name of the manufacturer of the fabrics, which are mainly French and Swiss.
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Date
- late 19th century
- Accession Number
- 1929-2-3
- Maker
- Miss Virginia Brush
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- sample books
- Scrapbook of textile swatches
- Medium
- Medium: cotton, paper, paper board Technique: printed on plain weave
- Dimensions
- H x W x D (closed): 38.5 × 29.2 × 11.2 cm (15 3/16 × 11 1/2 × 4 7/16 in.)
- 320 pages
- made in
- USA
- See more items in
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
- Textiles Department
- Record ID
- chndm_1929-2-3
- Usage
- Not determined
