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Object Name |
Sales-sample |
Year Range from |
1938 |
Year Range to |
1949 |
Description |
14 swatches of machine woven tweed, each with a numbered label, held together with a brass butterfly pin pushed through. The swatches are roughly cut rectangles. Top swatch has no numbered label (unlike the ones below) [but one's below suggest it is colourway 673]. Number labels attached with adhesive. Swatch numbers in this order: [673]; 674; 675; 676; 677; 678;679; 680; 681; 533; 532; 530; 529; 531 |
Search Terms |
Tweed Factory |
Subjects |
Weaving Textiles Textile industry Wool industry Samples |
Provenance |
Part of a collection of Akaroa Homespun Tweed samples woven at the Akaroa tweed factory, established 1938, closed April 1949. Purchased by donor at an antiques fair at Lincoln. |
Catalog Number |
2025.13.9 |
Credit line |
Gift of Nigel Harrison |