Manners of Weaving Overshot
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- Date
- n.d.
- Medium
- weaving on paper
- Catalogue Number
- AnM.08.043
- Description
- A large sheet of heavy white paper folded in half like a card. There are 14 examples of overshot sample weaving, woven in several shades of blue, green, beige, and white fibre, behind black paper frames. The weaving samples and a sheet of of white paper with black printing “MANNERS OF WEAVING OVERS…
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- Title
- Manners of Weaving Overshot
- Date
- n.d.
- Medium
- weaving on paper
- Dimensions
- 68.8 x 50.0 cm
- Description
- A large sheet of heavy white paper folded in half like a card. There are 14 examples of overshot sample weaving, woven in several shades of blue, green, beige, and white fibre, behind black paper frames. The weaving samples and a sheet of of white paper with black printing “MANNERS OF WEAVING OVERSHOT” are attached with masking tape. The cover has cutouts for each sample weaving and a larger window cutout in the middle for the white paper. Black paper is attached au verso around the cutouts to make a black frame for each and attached with masking tape. Au verso there is a white sheet of paper attached with tape “LEGEND” and the type of weaving in each sample window starting at viewer’s left “FLAME, AS DRAWN IN, ITALIAN, LACE, TIE-UP STANDARD, TIE-UP TRIPLE, LACE, BLOCK A PATTERN, BLOCK B PATTERN, BLOCK C PATTERN, BLOCK D PATTERN, SPETSVAV, ROSE FASHION, SWIVEL”.
- Subject
- weaving
- craft
- Mary Andrews
- Credit
- Gift of Mary Garnham Andrews, Banff, 1998
- Catalogue Number
- AnM.08.043
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