Scrapbook of textile and ribbon swatches
date: label: Date
content: 1900–15
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Scrapbook, assembled in New York, containing 1,545 swatches of textiles and ribbons. Some examples were purchased in shops in New York and Paris, others appear to come direct from the manufacturer. Several colorways. Swatches are either pasted or pinned into book and include woven, printed, and warp printed, and machine embroidered samples.
label: Description
content: Some swatches have labels attached: 'Magasins du Louvre' on p.13 and 41; 'Arnold Constable' label on pp 49, 111, 133, 136 and 147; 'B. Altman & Co.' p.91; 'Au Printemps' p.93; 'Au Bon Marche' p.147; 'Jarroson & Laval' p.147; a dyeing card from A.B. Chambeyron & fils, St. Etienne, May 14, 1900, some style numbers and weaves.
place: label: made in
content: France
label: made in
content: USA
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Textiles Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Bequest of Benjamin E. Marks
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1967-54-10
objectType: label: Type
content: sample books
label: Type
content: Scrapbook of textile and ribbon swatches
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Medium: silk, metallic, wool Technique: various weave structures.
label: Dimensions
content: H x W x D (closed): 35 × 32 × 7 cm (13 3/4 × 12 5/8 × 2 3/4 in.)