linen | Media | Collection of Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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Sample book of sixty-six woven samples inspired by eleven original textiles from the Cooper Union Museum Textile Collection.

Sample Book (USA), 1964
linen.
1965-36-1

This object is part of the Textiles collection.
There are 69 images of this object.

Horizontal rectangular panel of white linen embroidery and open work on a sheer white plain weave ground. Motifs include vases of flowers, cupids with arrows, ships, roosters. On the center line, two mermen with tridents riding sea monsters flanking a domed building.

Panel, ca. 1700
linen.
1974-99-2

This object is part of the Textiles collection.
There are 23 images of this object.

Sample book of printed florals, many in an eighteenth-century style. Pages themselves are large fabric swatches.

Sample Book (Austria), 1938
linen.
Gift of Harry De Pauer.
1940-100-1

This object is part of the Textiles collection.
There are 22 images of this object.

Sample book of printed florals, many in an eighteenth-century style. Pages themselves are large fabric swatches.

Sample Book (Austria), 1938
linen.
Gift of Harry De Pauer.
1940-100-2

This object is part of the Textiles collection.
There are 22 images of this object.

Damask tablecloth with embroidered signatures of the guests in the position they sat at the table, including Ignace Jan Paderewski and dated 1896.

Tablecloth, late 19th century
linen.
Gift of Carnegie Corporation of New York.
1979-22-2-a

This object is part of the Textiles collection.
There are 15 images of this object.

An altar set of four pieces in ivory linen embroidered with ivory linen. Embroidery and cut-work forms a grid of squares with crosses in the centers.

Altar Set (USA), ca. 1920
linen.
Gift of Scuola d' Industrie Italiane in New York through Florence Colgate....
1943-41-1-a/d

This object is part of the Textiles collection.
There are 11 images of this object.

Bands for cuffs and collars with deep curving lines held together by connecting brides.

Bands, 17th century
linen.
1931-53-3-a/h

This object is part of the Textiles collection.
There are 9 images of this object.

Group of lace intended for costume that includes seven pieces: a collar, two cuffs, two bands, and two shaped pieces. Pattern is an allover foliate scroll design.

Lace Group (Italy), ca. 1725
linen.
1967-46-12-a/g

This object is part of the Textiles collection.
There are 9 images of this object.

Border fragments with scrolling vines and angels.

Bands, early 18th century
linen.
Bequest of Richard Cranch Greenleaf in memory of his mother, Adeline Emma....
1962-50-304-a/d

This object is part of the Textiles collection.
There are 10 images of this object.

Place mats in light brown and white with designs from medieval Swedish seals. (a) depicts Stockholm (b) Duke Erik ready for battle (c) Magnusson's seal (d) reverse of Magnusson's seal.

Place Mats (Sweden), 1963–64
linen.
Gift of Elizabeth Gordon.
1964-24-35-a/d

This object is part of the Textiles collection.
There are 8 images of this object.

Design of tangent diamonds in tone-on-tone colors; a is bright yellow printed with white, b is black and deep blue, and c is medium and light brown. Samples a and c have additional small samples showing alternate colorways attached to the top.

Samples, Diamonds, ca. 1951
linen.
Gift of Mae Lamar Festa.
1991-157-3-a/c

This object was made by Knoll Textiles.
This object is part of the Textiles collection.
There are 8 images of this object.

Polychrome block print on white natural linen. Serpentine branches with fantastic flowers in red, pale blue with patterned petals and wild scrolling leaves in red and green. Pattern repeats in one-half drop. Condition: soiled

Textile (England or United States), 1920–30
linen.
Gift of Mrs. Germaine Little.
1968-110-92

This object is part of the Textiles collection.
There are 7 images of this object.

Blackberries sprinkled in field above border of plants which form angular border; square mesh

Borders (five), 19th century
linen.
Gift of Mrs. George Nichols from the collection of her mother, Mrs. J.P. Morgan.
1939-66-33-a/e

This object is part of the Textiles collection.
There are 7 images of this object.

Scallops of bobbin lace forming a border.

This object is part of the Textiles collection.
There are 8 images of this object.

Design of horizontal bands of two geometric patterns used alternately and set between narrow borders.

Band, ca. 1880
linen.
1943-70-4-a/e

This object is part of the Textiles collection.
There are 6 images of this object.

Covers (Ireland)

Covers (Ireland)
linen.
1980-50-1-a/e

This object is part of the Textiles collection.
There are 6 images of this object.

Borders
linen.
Gift of Sarah Cooper Hewitt.
1931-43-42-a/c

This object is part of the Textiles collection.
There are 6 images of this object.

Fragment from a skirt or bedcover of fine cream-white quilting and embroidery with drawnwork details on linen. Ground is quilted with diagonal cross bars made from cord inserted in narrow ridges. Sections of large scale floral motifs, pomegranate and foliage.

Fragment, early 18th century
linen.
1962-28-1

This object is part of the Textiles collection.
There are 7 images of this object.

Twenty-seven cross borders, all in white. Text is worked into the bottom band,

Sampler (England), mid-17th century
linen.
Bequest of Mrs. Henry E. Coe.
1941-69-218

This object is part of the Textiles collection.
There are 6 images of this object.

Borders, 19th century

Borders, 19th century
linen.
1933-1-180-a,b

This object is part of the Textiles collection.
There are 5 images of this object.

A deep, squared man's collar in Venetian-style needle lace, with large, baroque floral motifs and foliated scrolls with thick raised edges and finely worked connecting bars.

Collar (Italy), 1650–75
linen.
Bequest of Richard Cranch Greenleaf in memory of his mother, Adeline Emma....
1962-50-28

This object is part of the Textiles collection.
There are 7 images of this object.

Tablecloth of unbleached linen with serged edges. A design of four fish in the center field and striped borders on four sides are reserved in the natural linen through the wax-resist process. Black ink is hand-applied using the drag box, overlapping the bands of color to create an irregular stripe of deep gray and black.
Three napkins, two of white linen, one unbleached linen, with black ink hand-applied using the drag box, overlapping the bands of color to create an irregular stripe of deep gray and black.

Tablecloth And Napkins, Fish, 1950–1959
linen.
Gift of Seth Tillett and Nicole Rauscher.
2015-16-13-1/4

This object is part of the Textiles collection.
There are 9 images of this object.

Long narrow scarf or collar of Point de France with elaborate floral and scroll designs in a symmetrical arrangement with figures of people scattered throughout. Figures include a woman with a long staff and a fan, boys with baskets of fruit on their heads and dolphins. The design is arranged so that the woman's figure is in the center in a medallion frame. From the center point, on the left and right, design motifs descend in an arrangement vertical with the length.
Commonly called "Point de France"

Collar (France), late 17th century
linen.
Gift of Richard C. Greenleaf Esq. in memory of his mother, Adeline Emma....
1950-121-34

This object is part of the Textiles collection.
There are 5 images of this object.

Fragment And Ornaments, late 19th century

Fragment And Ornaments, late 19th century
linen.
Gift of Sarah Cooper Hewitt.
1931-66-123-a/d

This object is part of the Textiles collection.
There are 5 images of this object.

Needle lace cravat end with a delicate all-over floral design and figures, including a figure dressed as a warrior, wearing a helmet in form of a double-headed eagle, standing on a trophée flanked by kneeling warriors; the scene surmounted by a royal crown and surrounded by dolphins, winged putti, warrior figures and foliated sprays.

Cravat End (France), ca. 1695
linen.
Bequest of Richard Cranch Greenleaf in memory of his mother, Adeline Emma....
1962-50-18-a

This object is part of the Textiles collection.
There are 5 images of this object.

Fragments (Italy)

Fragments (Italy)
linen.
1962-50-226-a,b

This object is part of the Textiles collection.
There are 5 images of this object.

Band, 17th century

Band, 17th century
linen.
1939-64-14-a/d

This object is part of the Textiles collection.
There are 5 images of this object.

Brussels-style flounce with references to liquid including a woman sitting on a storm cloud, two exotically dressed people watering a fruit tree and a woman giving her milk to a child holding a cup.

Flounce (Belgium), late 17th century
linen.
Gift of Richard C. Greenleaf Esq. in memory of his mother, Adeline Emma....
1950-121-43

This object is part of the Textiles collection.
There are 5 images of this object.

Border
linen.
Bequest of Miss Adele Kneeland through Mrs. Philip Ainsworth Means.
1939-64-17-a/d

This object is part of the Textiles collection.
There are 5 images of this object.

Textile, Countryside Mural

Textile, Countryside Mural
linen.
1985-84-19-a,b

This object is part of the Textiles collection.
There are 6 images of this object.

Sprays of needle lace applied to machine-made net and cut to form a collar and two cuffs.

Collar And Cuffs, 19th century
linen.
1921-19-4-a/c

This object is part of the Textiles collection.
There are 5 images of this object.

Cravat End (Italy)

Cravat End (Italy)
linen.
1951-111-72-a/c

This object is part of the Textiles collection.
There are 5 images of this object.

Collar, late 19th–early 20th century

This object is part of the Textiles collection.
There are 5 images of this object.

Two pair of crocheted lace cuffs in white linen.
a,b with roses and shamrocks on a picotee ground
c,d in an overall lozenge design

Cuffs (Ireland), 19th century
linen.
Gift of Mary T. Cockcroft.
1944-44-4-a/d

This object is part of the Textiles collection.
There are 6 images of this object.

Long apron of fine white linen trimmed at sides and bottom with border of needle lace. Gathered at top into narrow band, finished with minute leaves of the same; long cords of lace ending in tassels of needle lace. Design of bottom border shows central vase flanked by birds. Floral borders at side.

Apron (Italy), 1906–10
linen.
Gift of Richard C. Greenleaf Esq. in memory of his mother, Adeline Emma....
1950-121-1

This object is part of the Textiles collection.
There are 6 images of this object.