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| Collection | Crafts Study Centre | |
| Weaver | Rita Beales | |
| Description | Hand-woven tablecloth made from natural grey and pink, hand-spun linen. | |
| Id Number Current Accession | T.75.29 | |
| Location Creation Site | Gospels Workshop, Ditchling, Sussex, UK | |
| Subject | woven textiles, tablecloth, pattern | |
| Measurements | 84 x 96.5 centimetres - Weight: 115 grams | |
| Weave | 2 block Swedish lace | |
| Material | linen | |
| Relation Exhibition | ´20th century Craftsmanship´, Holburne Museum, Bath, 1972. | |
| Rights Owner | Crafts Study Centre/Crafts Study Centre 2004 | |
| Style Period Period | 1930s | |
| Technique | hand-weaving | |
| Process | Border, warp and weft: 10 x two-block units of varying lengths, alternate Swedish lace and plain weave. Five threads of grey stripe/5 thread stripe with two of pink and 3 of natural/5 thread grey stripe. Central Panel: 8 x six squares of alternate plain weave and Swedish lace; each bordered with 2 units of the alternate weave (that is plain weave with Swedish lace corners round Swedish lace square and vice versa). Inlay motifs, in 2 designs, worked in pink and grey plyed yarn, in eight, apparently randomly chosen, plain weave squares. Selvedge: 5/5 double ends 26 ends per inch 24-27 picks per inch | |
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