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Object Name |
Sales-sample |
Year Range from |
1938 |
Year Range to |
1949 |
Description |
17 swatches of machine woven tweed, none with a numbered label (unlike other bound swatches in collection), held together with a brass butterfly pin pushed through. The swatches are roughly cut rectangles. Swatches are all variations on blue. Top swatch has two sticky labels, one stamped "Alisa Stewart". Another label the same is loose with collection. |
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 |
2025.13.11 |
Credit line |
Gift of Nigel Harrison |