topic:"crafts" found 33 records - Research Collections - Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies

Bag

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Date: 1950 – 1960

Material: fibre, plant; fibre, raffia

Catalogue Number: 103.08.0048

Description: A very loosely woven bag of straw with the straw warp only woven together in five rows. The bag has a braided edge at the top, and a braided handle that threads through the top row of straw. The bag is decorated with a red and green raffia design sewn on the front.

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Title: Bag

Date: 1950 – 1960

Material: fibre, plant; fibre, raffia

Dimensions: 23.0 x 36.0 cm

Description: A very loosely woven bag of straw with the straw warp only woven together in five rows. The bag has a braided edge at the top, and a braided handle that threads through the top row of straw. The bag is decorated with a red and green raffia design sewn on the front.

Subject: households; souvenirs; tourism; crafts; decorative; weaving; needlework

Credit: Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979

Catalogue Number: 103.08.0048

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Purse

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifact103.08.0062

Date: 1950 – 1960

Material: hair, sheep

Catalogue Number: 103.08.0062

Description: A rectangular, flat, red wool bag with pink, orange, yellow, green and white narrow stripes between three vertical red and white patterned bands. The purse has a green tassel at each of the bottom corners and a pink tassel at the middle of each side and the bottom.

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Title: Purse

Date: 1950 – 1960

Material: hair, sheep

Dimensions: 15.0 x 19.5 cm

Description: A rectangular, flat, red wool bag with pink, orange, yellow, green and white narrow stripes between three vertical red and white patterned bands. The purse has a green tassel at each of the bottom corners and a pink tassel at the middle of each side and the bottom.

Subject: households; crafts; weaving; needlework

Credit: Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979

Catalogue Number: 103.08.0062

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Shawl

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifact103.05.0057

Date: 1955 – 1965

Material: hair, sheep; fibre, flax

Catalogue Number: 103.05.0057

Description: A long, rectangular, woven shawl of twenty dents per inch. The shawl has brightly coloured stripes that are predominently red and a diamond-shaped tapestry in the centre. A linen fringe at each end is knotted into patterened netting.

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Title: Shawl

Date: 1955 – 1965

Material: hair, sheep; fibre, flax

Dimensions: 96.5 x 206.5 cm

Description: A long, rectangular, woven shawl of twenty dents per inch. The shawl has brightly coloured stripes that are predominently red and a diamond-shaped tapestry in the centre. A linen fringe at each end is knotted into patterened netting.

Subject: decorative; crafts; weaving

Credit: Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979

Catalogue Number: 103.05.0057

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Sun Hat

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifact103.04.0010

Date: 1950 – 1960

Material: fibre, plant

Catalogue Number: 103.04.0010

Description: A conical woven straw sun hat decorated with two rows of blue flowers and green leaves around the hat, and green trim at the bottom edge.

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Title: Sun Hat

Date: 1950 – 1960

Material: fibre, plant

Dimensions: 26.5 x 41.0 cm

Description: A conical woven straw sun hat decorated with two rows of blue flowers and green leaves around the hat, and green trim at the bottom edge.

Subject: decorative; flowers; crafts; weaving

Credit: Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979

Catalogue Number: 103.04.0010

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Throw Rug

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifact102.02.0017

Date: 1950 – 1952

Material: hair, sheep

Catalogue Number: 102.02.0017

Description: Navajo style rug, hand woven, grey background with zigzag and diamond pattern in gold, red, black and white. Four corner tassels.

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Title: Throw Rug

Date: 1950 – 1952

Material: hair, sheep

Dimensions: 110.5 x 168.0 cm

Description: Navajo style rug, hand woven, grey background with zigzag and diamond pattern in gold, red, black and white. Four corner tassels.

Subject: households; furnishings; crafts; weaving

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

Catalogue Number: 102.02.0017

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untitled [belt]

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

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

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.