Wilton carpet sample; Bigelow Carpet Co.; 1884
date: label: date made
content: 1884
name: label: maker
content: Bigelow Carpet Company
notes: label: Description
content: Sample length (selvage width, more than a yard in length) of Wilton carpet; cut pile, quality F, Jacquard-woven pattern: Very large all-over stylized foliage and floral design in browns, turquoise blue, and yellow-beige (browns predominating) on a cream ground. Made and donated by Bigelow Carpet, Co., Sales Office, Boston, MA; Mill, Clinton, MA; in 1884.
label: Description
content: The pile warp is wool; gray ground warp, fiber not known; weft is linen. The name "Bigelow" is woven into the center back in a strip parallel to the selvages.
label: Description
content: This sample is the field, which would be joined to a border, See T7406.
place: label: place made; Mill
content: United States: Massachusetts, Clinton
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content: Home and Community Life: Textiles
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content: American Textile Industry
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Bigelow Carpet Company
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: TE.T07405
label: accession number
content: 15084
label: catalog number
content: T07405
objectType: label: Object Name
content: carpet sample
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 38 3/4 in x 27 in; 98.425 cm x 68.58 cm