Textile

Museum number:
2-62333
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21020062333
Alternate number:
3543 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.3032
Description:
Student work textile, made of raffia, metallic, and various yarns. Tan, metallic gold, chartreuse, white and green weaving. Warp striped bands of tan raffia, gold metallic and chartreuse boucle yarns alternate with bands of predominantly white boucle. Weft heavy whitish synthetic (fiberglass?) green cord, chartreuse boucle. Two selvedges. Made 1940-1950.
Donor:
Design Department (UC Berkeley)
Collection place:
United States
Verbatim coll. place:
U.S.A.
Culture or time period:
United States Historic
Materials:
Synthetic
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Textile samples
Function:
8.3 For Manufacturing
Accession date:
1974
Department:
Nonnative US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
length 81 inches and width 32 inches
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Textile, accession number 2-62333, described as Student work textile, made of raffia, metallic, and various yarns. Tan, metallic gold, chartreuse, white and green weaving. Warp striped bands of tan raffia, gold metallic and chartreuse boucle yarns alternate with bands of predominantly white boucle. Weft heavy whitish synthetic (fiberglass?) green cord, chartreuse boucle. Two selvedges. Made 1940-1950.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Textile, accession number 2-62333, described as Student work textile, made of raffia, metallic, and various yarns. Tan, metallic gold, chartreuse, white and green weaving. Warp striped bands of tan raffia, gold metallic and chartreuse boucle yarns alternate with bands of predominantly white boucle. Weft heavy whitish synthetic (fiberglass?) green cord, chartreuse boucle. Two selvedges. Made 1940-1950.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Textile, accession number 2-62333, described as Student work textile, made of raffia, metallic, and various yarns. Tan, metallic gold, chartreuse, white and green weaving. Warp striped bands of tan raffia, gold metallic and chartreuse boucle yarns alternate with bands of predominantly white boucle. Weft heavy whitish synthetic (fiberglass?) green cord, chartreuse boucle. Two selvedges. Made 1940-1950.

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