Jacquard-woven picture of Kaiser Wilhelm I, Emperor of Germany, Arlington Mills, MA, 1882
date: label: Date made
content: 1882
name: label: maker
content: Arlington Mills
label: manufacturer
content: Arlington Mills
notes: label: Description
content: Picture, Jacquard-woven. Arlington Mills, MA. Undyed wool warp with undyed and black wool weft. Portrait of Kaiser Wilhelm I, Emperor of Germany. 1882. Pictures like these functioned either as exemplars of excellence celebrating the American textile industry. Jacquard woven bookmarks and pictures were both an expression of technical virtuosity for textile manufacturers and a popular novelty item for consumers.
label: Description
content: ATHM Collection - Gift of Mrs. Leroy S. Marsh
place: label: manufacturer
content: United States: Massachusetts, Lawrence
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: 2017.0232.04
label: catalog number
content: 2017.0232.04
label: accession number
content: 2017.0232
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Picture, woven
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wool (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: compound weave, jacquard-woven (overall production method/technique)