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The Reason Why
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifact107.01.1022
- Date
- n.d.
- Catalogue Number
- 107.01.1022
- Description
- A framed commercial print in black ink on off-white paper. “The Reason Why” title followed by the poem: “Not until each loom is silent And shuttles cease to fly, Will God unroll the pattern And explain the reason why The dark threads are as needful, In the Weaver’s skillful hand, As the threads of …
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- Title
- The Reason Why
- Date
- n.d.
- Dimensions
- 16.2 x 11.2 cm
- Description
- A framed commercial print in black ink on off-white paper. “The Reason Why” title followed by the poem: “Not until each loom is silent And shuttles cease to fly, Will God unroll the pattern And explain the reason why The dark threads are as needful, In the Weaver’s skillful hand, As the threads of gold and silver for the pattern which He planned.” There are garlands of flowers around the poem and on the viewer’s left a spinning wheel with yarn on the wheel making a ball which is being unravelled and played with by a kitten on viewer’s right.
- Subject
- households
- decorative
- weaving
- Mary Andrews
- Credit
- Gift of Mary Garnham Andrews, Banff, 2009
- Catalogue Number
- 107.01.1022
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Sculpture Loom
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifact104.45.1040
- Date
- n.d.
- Material
- metal
- Catalogue Number
- 104.45.1040
- Description
- A metal sculpture of a weaver (female) working a floor loom. The flat two-dimensional woman, bending forward from the waist, ‘looming’ over her work, is wearing a knee-length three-dimensional flared copper-coloured skirt. She is standing on the inside edge of a ring that is soldered to the loom. T…
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- Title
- Sculpture Loom
- Date
- n.d.
- Material
- metal
- Dimensions
- 9.7 x 10.5 x 15.5 cm
- Description
- A metal sculpture of a weaver (female) working a floor loom. The flat two-dimensional woman, bending forward from the waist, ‘looming’ over her work, is wearing a knee-length three-dimensional flared copper-coloured skirt. She is standing on the inside edge of a ring that is soldered to the loom. The floor loom has six foot treadles, two soldered down, the other four in various raised positions. It has a harness with ten heddles and three copper wires passing through as fabric warp threads.
- Subject
- crafts
- metalwork
- weaving
- Mary Andrews
- Credit
- Gift of Mary Garnham Andrews, Banff, 2009
- Catalogue Number
- 104.45.1040
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- Date
- 2008
- Material
- fabric; plastic; metal
- Catalogue Number
- 103.08.1143
- Description
- A small bag from Nepal, woven on the back, and woven and embroidered on the front, with a multi-coloured corded strap (135.0cm) sewn onto the side of the bag, extending from the fringed bottom 4.0cm suspended from a blue plastic bead, to an over-the-shoulder cord. The front part is backed by a blac…
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- Title
- Shoulder Bag
- Date
- 2008
- Material
- fabric; plastic; metal
- Dimensions
- 15.5 x 19.0 cm
- Description
- A small bag from Nepal, woven on the back, and woven and embroidered on the front, with a multi-coloured corded strap (135.0cm) sewn onto the side of the bag, extending from the fringed bottom 4.0cm suspended from a blue plastic bead, to an over-the-shoulder cord. The front part is backed by a black muslin cotton piece that forms a separate compartment. There is a plastic and metal black zipper (15.0cm) on the top portion of the bag (one compartment) and the same kind and size of zipper lower down (5.0cm) opening onto a separate compartment. The bottom front of the bag 13.5x15.0cm wide) is gold satin with a circular embroidered design; the top part (5.0x15.0cm wide) is a multi-coloured woven design the same as the entire back of the bag. The paper price tag is attached by a piece of clear plastic; it reads “TEN THOUSAND VILLAGES” in red lettering and “ MADE IN/FABRIQUE DU NEPAL/NEPAL 5900165” in black lettering and the barcode underneath.
- Subject
- households
- clothing
- accessory
- crafts
- Nepal
- Mary Andrews
- Credit
- Gift of Mary Garnham Andrews, Banff, 2009
- Catalogue Number
- 103.08.1143
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Storage Basket
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifact102.04.1092
- Date
- n.d.
- Material
- bark; metal; skin
- Catalogue Number
- 102.04.1092
- Description
- A sturdy bark lidded pail storage vessel with fauna print decoration. The bottom is nailed to thick wood bottom. There is a long leather string attached to back.
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- Title
- Storage Basket
- Date
- n.d.
- Material
- bark; metal; skin
- Dimensions
- 37.5 x 28.5 cm
- Description
- A sturdy bark lidded pail storage vessel with fauna print decoration. The bottom is nailed to thick wood bottom. There is a long leather string attached to back.
- Subject
- Mary Andrews
- basket
- households
- Credit
- Gift of Kelly Wilson, Banff, 2019
- Catalogue Number
- 102.04.1092
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Table, Hand Woven Runner
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifact102.04.1081
- Date
- 1985
- Material
- wool
- Catalogue Number
- 102.04.1081
- Description
- A mainly blue (background) wool table runner with the cotton warp creating the extended fringes on the ends. The other colours used to make the designs are gold, grey, and white. The runner is from Sweden and the technique is overshot threading.
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- Title
- Table, Hand Woven Runner
- Date
- 1985
- Material
- wool
- Dimensions
- 39.0 x 104.0 cm
- Description
- A mainly blue (background) wool table runner with the cotton warp creating the extended fringes on the ends. The other colours used to make the designs are gold, grey, and white. The runner is from Sweden and the technique is overshot threading.
- Subject
- crafts
- weaving
- households
- Sweden
- Mary Andrews
- Credit
- Gift of Mary Garnham Andrews, Banff, 2009
- Catalogue Number
- 102.04.1081
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Table, Hand Woven Runner
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifact102.04.1080
- Date
- n.d.
- Material
- fabric
- Catalogue Number
- 102.04.1080
- Description
- A multi-coloured, multi-patterned woven table runner woven in Mexico. It has a red background, one completely red end (16.0x37.0cm wide) and a variety of colours and patterns in between, the other end (6.0x37.0cm wide) mainly red with small blue and yellow Xs.
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- Title
- Table, Hand Woven Runner
- Date
- n.d.
- Material
- fabric
- Dimensions
- 37.0 x 116.0 cm
- Description
- A multi-coloured, multi-patterned woven table runner woven in Mexico. It has a red background, one completely red end (16.0x37.0cm wide) and a variety of colours and patterns in between, the other end (6.0x37.0cm wide) mainly red with small blue and yellow Xs.
- Subject
- household
- crafts
- weaving
- Mary Andrews
- Credit
- Gift of Mary Garnham Andrews, Banff, 2009
- Catalogue Number
- 102.04.1080
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- Date
- 1977
- Material
- wood; metal; fibre; paper; plastic
- Catalogue Number
- 104.45.1041 a-c
- Description
- A table loom, shuttle, and weaving (belt) that is set up on the loom:(a) A four-harness wood table loom handmade by Harold Mortimer, strung, with shuttle and cotton thread attached which you move through the warp as the weft. There is a pencilled circle (radius 2.0cm, 3.60cm from each end and 0.50c…
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- Title
- Table Loom
- Date
- 1977
- Material
- wood; metal; fibre; paper; plastic
- Dimensions
- 33.0 x 16.5 x 61.0 cm
- Description
- A table loom, shuttle, and weaving (belt) that is set up on the loom:(a) A four-harness wood table loom handmade by Harold Mortimer, strung, with shuttle and cotton thread attached which you move through the warp as the weft. There is a pencilled circle (radius 2.0cm, 3.60cm from each end and 0.50cm from the bottom with the number) the number “3” and “HM” , Harold Mortimer’s monogram, pencilled in the centre. It has four wooden knobs on top of the upright posts that have the string harnesses attached. Underneath the top of the upright post there is a white address label (4.60x1.5cm wide) with red on the top and bottom. On it is printed “HAROLD MORTIMER 341 BIG HORN ST BOX 77 BANFF ALBERTA T0L 0C0 and to the right of that, written in pen “DEC 1977”It has metal reeds which the fibre goes through. The completed part of the belt is wound around the roller (covered in cardboard) so the fibre not damaged. There is a slender round piece of wood (pencil) for tautness. There is also a roller (warp beam) on the back where the threads (warp) are attached.(b) the wooden shuttle, 17.5x2.5cm wide, with a groove at each end creating a space for the fibre to be wound around horizontally.(c) the partially woven, blue, yellow, and brown strip of woven cloth that is set up on the loom.
- Subject
- crafts
- woodwork
- weaving
- Harold Mortimer
- Mary Andrews
- Credit
- Gift of Mary Garnham Andrews, Banff, 2009
- Catalogue Number
- 104.45.1041 a-c
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Untitled [baby shawl]
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactanm.08.015%20a
- Date
- c. 1950
- Medium
- weaving
- Catalogue Number
- AnM.08.015 a
- Description
- A light blue wool, baby shawl, fringed along all edges. White tag with royal blue lettering “hand woven” stitched on, in the middle of one end above one fringe.
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- Title
- Untitled [baby shawl]
- Date
- c. 1950
- Medium
- weaving
- Dimensions
- 100.0 x 114.0 cm
- Description
- A light blue wool, baby shawl, fringed along all edges. White tag with royal blue lettering “hand woven” stitched on, in the middle of one end above one fringe.
- Subject
- crafts
- weaving
- Mary Andrews
- Credit
- Gift of Mary Garnham Andrews, Banff, 1998
- Catalogue Number
- AnM.08.015 a
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untitled [belt]
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactanm.08.029%20c
- Date
- c. 1970
- Catalogue Number
- AnM.08.029 c
- Description
- An inkle loom-made belt in shades of blues and greens with fringed ends.
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- Title
- untitled [belt]
- Date
- c. 1970
- Dimensions
- 4.5 x 147.0 cm
- Description
- An inkle loom-made belt in shades of blues and greens with fringed ends.
- Subject
- crafts
- weaving
- Mary Andrews
- Credit
- Gift of Mary Garnham Andrews, Banff, 1998
- Catalogue Number
- AnM.08.029 c
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untitled [belt]
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactanm.08.021%20e
- Date
- c. 1960
- Medium
- weaving
- Catalogue Number
- AnM.08.021 e
- Description
- A woven belt with green, brown and yellow stripes. There is a metal buckle sewn on one end and two strips of leather on the other, one of which has a tongue with six metal grommets.
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- Title
- untitled [belt]
- Date
- c. 1960
- Medium
- weaving
- Dimensions
- 8.0 x 83.0 cm
- Description
- A woven belt with green, brown and yellow stripes. There is a metal buckle sewn on one end and two strips of leather on the other, one of which has a tongue with six metal grommets.
- Subject
- crafts
- weaving
- Mary Andrews
- Credit
- Gift of Mary Garnham Andrews, Banff, 1998
- Catalogue Number
- AnM.08.021 e
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