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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 1947–48 and we acquired it in 1972. Its medium is cotton, silk, cellulose acetate butyrate-laminated aluminum yarn and its technique is 2/2 twill plain woven. It is a part of the Textiles department.
This object was
donated by
Estate of Dorothy Liebes Morin.
It is credited Gift of the Estate of Dorothy Liebes Morin.
Its dimensions are
H x W (sample): 18.7 × 21.5 cm (7 3/8 × 8 7/16 in.) H x W (card): 31.8 × 27.9 cm (12 1/2 in. × 11 in.)
It is inscribed
Liebes # 2595 M.P. handwritten on reverse upper left corner. Possibly woven by Marion Phal.
Cite this object as
Sample Card (USA); Designed by Dorothy Wright Liebes (American, 1897–1972); cotton, silk, cellulose acetate butyrate-laminated aluminum yarn; H x W (sample): 18.7 × 21.5 cm (7 3/8 × 8 7/16 in.) H x W (card): 31.8 × 27.9 cm (12 1/2 in. × 11 in.); Gift of the Estate of Dorothy Liebes Morin; 1972-75-49
This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition A Dark, A Light, A Bright: The Designs of Dorothy Liebes.
