Pin; 'Sheep for Schacht', Boulder, Colorado
date: label: date made
content: ca. 2000
notes: label: Description
content: Pin; "Sheep for Schacht", round white pin with blue image of a flock of sheep and text, with red, white, and blue ribbon tails.Schacht Spindle Co. was established in 1969, and remains today one of the most popular American makers and distributors of tools and equipment for hand-spinning and -weaving. The company is headquartered in Boulder, CO. Schacht is an important part of the renaissance of handmade textile crafts in the US, and the firm's products appear at many of the nation’s “sheep and wool” festivals – events that thrive through the support of a large and growing community of interest that ranges across age groups, gender, race, and religion.
label: Description
content: ATHM Collection: #: 2008.58.4; (FIC, no provenance)
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Home and Community Life: Textiles
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: American Textile History Museum Collection
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2017.0232.45
label: catalog number
content: 2017.0232.45
label: accession number
content: 2017.0232
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Pin
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 3/8 in x 1 3/8 in x 1/8 in; 6.0325 cm x 3.4925 cm x .3175 cm