Scarf Commemorating the World's Columbian Exposition

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Status

Currently Off View

Department

Textiles

Title

Scarf Commemorating the World's Columbian Exposition

Place

Chicago (Object made in)

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Made 1893

Medium

Silk, weft-float faced satin weave self-patterned by main warp floats and areas of plain interlacing; extended ground weft cut fringe; woven on loom with Jacquard attachment; signature embroidered in couching

Inscriptions

Souvenir Woven at the World's Columbian Exposition Chicago 1893 US Government Building name embroidered in lower right corner

Dimensions

34.3 × 34 cm (13 1/2 × 13 3/8 in.)

Credit Line

Purchased with funds provided by Christa C. Mayer Thurman

Reference Number

1978.2

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