Sample book
Small notebook with handwritten formulas for dyestuffs to be used for printing textiles. There are 253 samples of printed cotton fabrics in various patterns: geometric, flowers, stripes, checks.
Credit: Gift of Frederick J. Whitehead from the collection compiled by his father Cornelius Whitehead at the Pacific Print Works of Lawrence, Massachusetts
1879
Medium: leather, paper, cotton Technique: printed on plain weave and warp-face 5&1 diamond twill, weft-float pattern based on a plain weave structure
1945-55-31
Image and text © Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, 2020
Where you'll find this
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
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