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Object Name |
Sales-sample |
Year Range from |
1938 |
Year Range to |
1949 |
Description |
13 swatches of machine woven tweed, each with a numbered label, held together with two brass butterfly pins pushed through a yellow card label printed "Akaroa Homespun Tweeds" and inscr. "A. R. M." Swatches are roughly square. Top swatch has "113" on its label. Number labels attached with small brass butterfly pin. Swatch numbers in this order: 113; 114; 115; 116; 117; 118; 119; 120; 121; 122; 123; 124; 125 |
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 |
2025.13.5 |
Credit line |
Gift of Nigel Harrison |