Textile

Museum number:
7-6631
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21070006631
Alternate number:
3994 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.3032
Description:
Carving cloth: white linen damask woven with central pattern of roses and buds, end borders of large roses and leaves, edged by diagonal dash pattern. To be placed under platter before carving to protect table cloth. White linen. Damask. Used before 1900. Two stains, 1 inch hem, selvedge. 24 inches by 37 inches.
Donor:
Design Department (UC Berkeley)
Collection place:
Ireland
Verbatim coll. place:
Ireland?
Culture or time period:
Irish
Materials:
Linen (material)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Textile samples
Function:
4.1 Dwellings and Furnishings
Accession date:
1974
Department:
Europe and western Russia (except Classical Mediterranean)
Dimensions:
width 24 inches and length 37 inches
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Textile, accession number 7-6631, described as Carving cloth: white linen damask woven with central pattern of roses and buds, end borders of large roses and leaves, edged by diagonal dash pattern. To be placed under platter before carving to protect table cloth. White linen. Damask. Used before 1900. Two stains, 1 inch hem, selvedge. 24 inches by 37 inches.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Textile, accession number 7-6631, described as Carving cloth: white linen damask woven with central pattern of roses and buds, end borders of large roses and leaves, edged by diagonal dash pattern. To be placed under platter before carving to protect table cloth. White linen. Damask. Used before 1900. Two stains, 1 inch hem, selvedge. 24 inches by 37 inches.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Textile, accession number 7-6631, described as Carving cloth: white linen damask woven with central pattern of roses and buds, end borders of large roses and leaves, edged by diagonal dash pattern. To be placed under platter before carving to protect table cloth. White linen. Damask. Used before 1900. Two stains, 1 inch hem, selvedge. 24 inches by 37 inches.

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