Deering-Milliken textile length, 1961-1962
date: label: date made
content: 1961 - 1962
notes: label: Description
content: Rita J. Adrosko designed commercial woolen textile length in Turquoise and orange hounds-tooth check, 36” L x 59” W. For/by Deering-Milliken Woolens New England factory, 1961-62. The firm’s headquarters were then at 1045 Sixth Avenue, NYC, between 40th and 41st Sts. Rita Adrosko was for many years a curator in the Division of Textiles, MHT/NMAH. Her donations to the collection document her own work as a textile designer and scholar of woven textiles.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Home and Community Life: Textiles
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Rita J. Adrosko
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2017.0320.06
label: accession number
content: 2017.0320
label: catalog number
content: 2017.0320.06
objectType: label: Object Name
content: textile length
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wool (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: twill weave (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 36 in x 59 in; 91.44 cm x 149.86 cm