Samples
date: label: Date
content: 1919
name: label: Designer
content: Herman A. Elsberg, (American, 1869–1938)
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Portfolio with woven fabric samples in a design of slender serpentine stems with large stylized roses in black velvet outlined with short floats of secondary silk weft. Sprays of minute flower in the same technique form serpentine lines that connect to flower heads.
place: label: made in
content: Lyon, 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: Anonymous bequest in memory of Albert and Rebecca Elsberg
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1938-82-207-b/l
objectType: label: Type
content: sample books
label: Type
content: Samples
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Medium: silk warp, cotton weft Technique: cut and voided supplementary warp pile (velvet) in a satin foundation