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1947

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1948

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2012

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Sample Card (USA)

This is a Sample card. It was designed by Dorothy Wright Liebes and woven by Dorothy Wright Liebes. It is dated 1947 and we acquired it in 1948. Its medium is cotton, viscose rayon, cellulose acetate butyrate-laminated aluminum yarn and its technique is twill woven. It is a part of the Textiles department.

It is credited Museum purchase through gift of Mrs. John Innes Kane.

Its dimensions are

H x W (sample): 17.1 × 19.4 cm (6 3/4 × 7 5/8 in.) H x W (card): 35.5 × 28 cm (14 × 11 in.)

It is inscribed

Inscribed in black ink, below sample, left: #2086; right: Dorothy Liebes

Cite this object as

Sample Card (USA); Designed by Dorothy Wright Liebes (American, 1897–1972); cotton, viscose rayon, cellulose acetate butyrate-laminated aluminum yarn; H x W (sample): 17.1 × 19.4 cm (6 3/4 × 7 5/8 in.) H x W (card): 35.5 × 28 cm (14 × 11 in.); Museum purchase through gift of Mrs. John Innes Kane; 1948-26-6

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