Letter with swatches
date: label: Date
content: 1786
name: label: Client
content: Poache Frères
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Letter written in French, dated May 8,1786 in Rouen, from Pievel Freres (manufacturers) to Poache Freres (shipowners?) at Havre concerning an order of 'blue guines' and suggesting the fabric might sell well at the Cape. On second page are four small swatches of blue resist.
place: label: made in
content: Rouen, France
setName: label: See more items in
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Textiles Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Au Panier Fleuri Fund
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1987-71-1
objectType: label: Type
content: printed, dyed & painted textiles
label: Type
content: Letter with swatches
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Technique: resist paste printed by block; immersion dyed in indigo to achieve two shades of blue
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 24.1 × 19.1 cm (9 1/2 × 7 1/2 in.)