Cheney Brothers point paper for furnishing fabric, 1 of 8 sheets, 1913
date: label: date made
content: 1913
name: label: maker
content: Cheney Brothers
notes: label: Description
content: Cheney Brothers point paper, design for furnishing fabric, 1 of 8 sheets for this design, 1913. Painted design on square paper for T-1056 fabric sample, a figured weave with a gray-green ground. Mfrs. #s: Com. 4629; Style 3272. 8 sheets, A through H. Point papers were used to plot a design out for cutting the cards for Jacquard-loom-woven textiles.
label: Description
content: "point paper" depicting red floral motif with branching green stems and leaves, plus graphic squiggle line in repeating black, green and ochre rectangles, and matching graphic five point flower motif. "2" written in blank ink at the upper left corner. Numerical scale written in pencil on the right side runs from 8 to 216. "1st Mach" painted in black ink along the top margin. "T.1055E" written in pencil on the upper right corner. "T.1055E" written on the verso in pencil along the left edge. Ten remnants of small red border paper stickers used to mend on the edges of the verso. Approximately 120" of brown paper tape on verso. A number stamped in purple ink along the right edge of the verso is obscured by paper tape.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Connecticut, Manchester, South Manchester
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content: Home and Community Life: Textiles
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Cheney Brothers
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: TE.T01055.00E
label: catalog number
content: T01055.00E
label: accession number
content: 56298
objectType: label: Object Name
content: point paper
label: Object Name
content: textile design