Textile

Museum number:
2-68269a-d
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm210268269a@2dd
Accession number:
Acc.3032
Description:
Jacket and fragments. White cotton gauze machine embroidered with floral and scattered lozenge motifs. (a) unfinished jacket in poor condition; couched thick cotton cordage around neckline. heavy floral embroidery, patterns scattered, lozenge motifs. Length 68.5 cm; width 49 cm. (b) fragment with machine embroidery. creped cotton, white, possibly to make blouse. Length 62 cm; width 29.8 cm. (c) fragment of rolled cotton cloth, white not. Old note says “USA 1920s”. U.S. Historic attr. (d) scrap of creped cotton, white, irreg. shaped, 36"x 3-8
Donor:
Design Department (UC Berkeley)
Collection place:
United States
Verbatim coll. place:
U.S.A.
Culture or time period:
United States Historic
Materials:
Silk
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Embroidery (visual works) and Textile samples
Function:
2.1 Daily Garb
Accession date:
1974
Department:
Nonnative US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
width 18 inches and length 23 inches
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 3 titled Textile, accession number 2-68269a-d, described as Jacket and fragments. White cotton gauze machine embroidered with floral and scattered lozenge motifs. (a) unfinished jacket in poor condition; couched thick cotton cordage around neckline. heavy floral embroidery, patterns scattered, lozenge motifs. Length 68.5 cm; width 49 cm. (b) fragment with machine embroidery. creped cotton, white, possibly to make blouse. Length 62 cm; width 29.8 cm. (c) fragment of rolled cotton cloth, white not. Old note says “USA 1920s”. U.S. Historic attr. (d) scrap of creped cotton, white, irreg. shaped, 36"x 3-8Hearst Museum object 2 of 3 titled Textile, accession number 2-68269a-d, described as Jacket and fragments. White cotton gauze machine embroidered with floral and scattered lozenge motifs. (a) unfinished jacket in poor condition; couched thick cotton cordage around neckline. heavy floral embroidery, patterns scattered, lozenge motifs. Length 68.5 cm; width 49 cm. (b) fragment with machine embroidery. creped cotton, white, possibly to make blouse. Length 62 cm; width 29.8 cm. (c) fragment of rolled cotton cloth, white not. Old note says “USA 1920s”. U.S. Historic attr. (d) scrap of creped cotton, white, irreg. shaped, 36"x 3-8Hearst Museum object 3 of 3 titled Textile, accession number 2-68269a-d, described as Jacket and fragments. White cotton gauze machine embroidered with floral and scattered lozenge motifs. (a) unfinished jacket in poor condition; couched thick cotton cordage around neckline. heavy floral embroidery, patterns scattered, lozenge motifs. Length 68.5 cm; width 49 cm. (b) fragment with machine embroidery. creped cotton, white, possibly to make blouse. Length 62 cm; width 29.8 cm. (c) fragment of rolled cotton cloth, white not. Old note says “USA 1920s”. U.S. Historic attr. (d) scrap of creped cotton, white, irreg. shaped, 36"x 3-8
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Textile, accession number 2-68269a-d, described as Jacket and fragments. White cotton gauze machine embroidered with floral and scattered lozenge motifs. (a) unfinished jacket in poor condition; couched thick cotton cordage around neckline. heavy floral embroidery, patterns scattered, lozenge motifs. Length 68.5 cm; width 49 cm. (b) fragment with machine embroidery. creped cotton, white, possibly to make blouse. Length 62 cm; width 29.8 cm. (c) fragment of rolled cotton cloth, white not. Old note says “USA 1920s”. U.S. Historic attr. (d) scrap of creped cotton, white, irreg. shaped, 36"x 3-8

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