Yarn -- Sample books

Scope and Contents The volume (62x31.1) and the accompanying loose sheets (62 x 31.2-.4) compose Georg Timmich's collection of dye recipes for yarn and textile fabrics. Many of the recipes are accompanied by a swatch dyed to show the results. Toward the back of the volume, entries are made in a different handwriting of a more recent, probably 19th-century, style and spelling. The first page contains an ornate calligraphic verse "Alles mit Gott, So hat es keine Noth. Soli Deo Gloria" and the date 1754. Text in...

Scope and Contents This artificial and still open collection includes both bound and unbound items. It was initially formed by gathering together items containing textile fabric samples, yarn samples, needlework samples, ribbons, and other textile-related materials at the repository that were not already part of another collection of papers or records. Further acquisitions of swatch books and textile materials will be added to this collection when received. Each item in this collection is also separately...

Scope and Contents Consist of 7 small (8-12 leaves each) paperbound volumes containing recipes for dyeing yarn, most of which are accompanied by a yarn sample in the finished color. Four of the volumes have printed covers indicating that they were manufactured in Boston or Waltham, MA as savings account passbooks in 1847, 1853 and 1854; presumably the dye recipes come from that area and time period as well.The writing seems to have been done by at least two different people. One of the following...