Enlarged textile design for pantograph plates; Cheney Brothers, 1916
date: label: date made
content: 1916
name: label: maker
content: Cheney Brothers
notes: label: Description
content: Enlarged textile design for pantograph plates; Cheney Brothers, 1916. Enlarged version of floral design T2831, used for transferring the designs to the pantograph plates. Design for a printed FLorentine silk, T2834. 6 specimens, Dimesnions listed as 19.5" x 29" and 19" x 26". Set includes the original design T2831, and the pantograph plates, T2833 (6 specimens) used on the pantograph machine to transfer the design to the copper printing roller.
label: Description
content: Depicting green, gray, red, purple, and blue striped floral motif. "#1176-#3 Plate" written in pencil along the top edge of the paper. Deliberate triangular shaped cut-outs in 6 places. Faint pencil sketching and grid lines in the background. "T 2832B" in the upper left corner of the verso: "T" and "B" written in pencil, "2832" stamped in black ink.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Connecticut, Manchester, South Manchester
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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.T02832.00B
label: catalog number
content: T02832.00B
objectType: label: Object Name
content: textile design