Weavers
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Here are entered works on hand-loom weavers, including the medieval guild artisans. Works on modern textile workers in factories are entered under Textile workers.
Found in 1 Collection or Record:
Muster Karte von iermesût, scalli, cettari, und scalagia nach Ostindischer Art, 1800 - 1809
Item — Volume Col-50, acc. 62x32
Identifier: Col-50, acc. 62x32
Scope and Contents
Viennese swatch book. Consists of twelve panels of 22 numbered swatches of colored woven silk and cotton. On the first and fourteenth panels are copies of a trade label in German summarizing Codecasa's business and giving his address. Identified by Florence Montgomery (Textiles in America, 1650-1870) as "a late eighteenth-century sample book of 272 swatches of striped silk and cotton materials patterned after Indian goods." Labels on the cover and slipcase indicate that this was the second...
Dates:
1800 - 1809
Found in:
Winterthur Library
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Swatch book collection