Cheney Brothers point paper for furnishing fabric, 1 of 6 sheets, 1913
date: label: date made
content: 1913
name: label: maker
content: Cheney Brothers
notes: label: Description
content: Cheney Brothers point paper, for design for furnishing fabric, 1 of 6 sheets for this design, 1913. Painted design on six sheets of squared paper for fabric sample, T-1058, a floral design furnishing fabric in green and old rose on tan. Mfrs. #s: Com 4488; Style 3098. Manufacturer termed the design a 'tapestry design'. Point papers were used to plot a design out for cutting the cards for Jacquard-loom-woven textiles.
label: Description
content: "point paper" depicting a green, gold and pink floral motif. Numerical scale written in pencil on the right side runs from 8 to 160. "288 - Binder," "1728," and "1 - 1st Mach" written in black ink on the top margin. "T 1057" written in pencil on the top right corner, the "1057" in a rectangle. "3098" stamped in purple ink on the left edge of the verso. "1" stamped in purple ink above that. "T.1057D" written in pencil on the left edge of the verso.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Connecticut, Manchester, South Manchester
setName: label: See more items in
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.T01057.00D
label: catalog number
content: T01057.00D
label: accession number
content: 56298
objectType: label: Object Name
content: point paper
label: Object Name
content: textile design