topic:"crafts" found 98 records - Research Collections - Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies

Quilt

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Date: 1915

Material: satin; fibre; cotton

Catalogue Number: 102.01.1008

Description: The quilt is made primarily of a blue fabric on the front and back. The front of the quilt presents a series of squares in blue, white, and red. Each square has the name or initials of the women that worked on the quilt. The central area is embroidered “The Bankhead Ladies Patriotic Society.” At ea…

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Title: Quilt

Date: 1915

Material: satin; fibre; cotton

Dimensions: 1.5 x 1.5 cm

Description: The quilt is made primarily of a blue fabric on the front and back. The front of the quilt presents a series of squares in blue, white, and red. Each square has the name or initials of the women that worked on the quilt. The central area is embroidered “The Bankhead Ladies Patriotic Society.” At each of the four corners of the internal detail there is a small red cross within a white square. On the inside of each of these white squares there is a red square with an embroidered flower.

Subject: households; furnishings; crafts; quilting; Bankhead

Credit: Gift of Ruth A Biss, Nanaimo, 2013

Catalogue Number: 102.01.1008

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Buckskin Jacket

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Date: 1915

Material: skin, deer; fibre; glass; plastic; metal

Catalogue Number: 103.05.1176

Description: A fringed deerskin jacket with thread embroidery on the yoke, front and back, and cuffs. The jacket has a fringe along the yoke at the back, the front, and extending down the sides and the sleeves. There is a front opening with metal buttons (ship’s anchor design) and buttonholes; plastic buttons o…

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Title: Buckskin Jacket

Date: 1915

Material: skin, deer; fibre; glass; plastic; metal

Dimensions: 44.0 x 58.0cm cm

Description: A fringed deerskin jacket with thread embroidery on the yoke, front and back, and cuffs. The jacket has a fringe along the yoke at the back, the front, and extending down the sides and the sleeves. There is a front opening with metal buttons (ship’s anchor design) and buttonholes; plastic buttons on cuffs. The jacket has a pinked stand-up pinked collar and pinked cuffs, pockets and bottom edges. Simple floral embroidery work using brown, yellow and pink thread on yoke (back and front), pockets, and red and brown simple stitching on the cuffs. Measurement arms and shoulders 124.0cm wide.

Subject: crafts; sewing; beadwork; Mary Sharpless Schaffer Warren

Credit: Gift of Eric C. Sharpless, 2009

Catalogue Number: 103.05.1176

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Hat

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Date: 1940

Material: fibre

Catalogue Number: 103.04.1025

Description: White felt hat with many names embroidered in red. Names include: G. Brewster, J. McFadden, R. S. Cushing, etc. Inside “R.E. Brett.”

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Title: Hat

Date: 1940

Material: fibre

Description: White felt hat with many names embroidered in red. Names include: G. Brewster, J. McFadden, R. S. Cushing, etc. Inside “R.E. Brett.”

Subject: R.E. Brett; G. Brewster; crafts; needlework

Credit: Gift of Dick Keller, Banff, 1988

Catalogue Number: 103.04.1025

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Trinket Box

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Date: 1945 – 1945

Material: stone

Catalogue Number: 102.04.0201

Description: A hand-carved, well-made, lidded box carved from soft Rocky Mountain marble. The box has a front and a back. The front has bevelled corners, whereas the back has square corners. The box interior has rounded corners and the lid fits smoothly and flushly into the cutout. Base is felted with green fel…

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Title: Trinket Box

Date: 1945 – 1945

Material: stone

Dimensions: 4.3 x 5.7 x 9.2 cm

Description: A hand-carved, well-made, lidded box carved from soft Rocky Mountain marble. The box has a front and a back. The front has bevelled corners, whereas the back has square corners. The box interior has rounded corners and the lid fits smoothly and flushly into the cutout. Base is felted with green felt. The marble is black, streaked with white.

Subject: households; decorative; miniatures; Pete Neish; crafts; carving

Credit: Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979

Catalogue Number: 102.04.0201

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Untitled (sample)

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Artist: Mary Garnham Andrews (1916 – 2018, Canadian)

Date: 1948

Medium: weaving

Catalogue Number: AnM.08.002 b

Description: A hand woven sample of bound weaving, humanesque style, in wool and rayon in colours of red, black, yellow, blue white and brown. There are rows of designs, most notably a row of girls and a row of boys.

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Artist: Mary Garnham Andrews (1916 – 2018, Canadian)

Title: Untitled (sample)

Date: 1948

Medium: weaving

Dimensions: 38.0 x 29.5 cm

Description: A hand woven sample of bound weaving, humanesque style, in wool and rayon in colours of red, black, yellow, blue white and brown. There are rows of designs, most notably a row of girls and a row of boys.

Subject: crafts; weaving; Mary Andrews

Credit: Gift of Mary Garnham Andrews, Banff, 1998

Catalogue Number: AnM.08.002 b

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Needlework Kit

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Date: 1940 – 1980

Material: fibre; metal

Catalogue Number: 104.45.1033

Description: Small folding hard-sided sewing kit. The interior of the case is finished with fabric. The bottom half has indentations to hold the kit’s components, but most of the pieces are now missing - there are only two needles and a pair of scissors left. The lid is padded and has many needles and pins i…

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Title: Needlework Kit

Date: 1940 – 1980

Material: fibre; metal

Description: Small folding hard-sided sewing kit. The interior of the case is finished with fabric. The bottom half has indentations to hold the kit’s components, but most of the pieces are now missing - there are only two needles and a pair of scissors left. The lid is padded and has many needles and pins inserted into the fabric.