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| Date: | 1800 |
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| Description: | Needlework scene on silk worked in colored silk thread using running and crewel stitches. The hands and faces of the figures are watercolor on paper. Sce... |
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| Description: | A seated Navajo woman weaves a blanket near two young children. Cooking pots and utensils are in the right foreground. |
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| Description: | View of a woman weaving with a loom as an exhibit at the Farmer's Museum, which opened in 1944. There is another loom behind her. |
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| Description: | View of a woman weaving at a loom in the weaving room of the Berry School, which opened in 1902. Blankets are hanging near the ceiling. |
| Date: | 11 13 1956 |
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| Description: | Anna Runstrom and her granddaughter, Erica Leigh Runstrom, demonstrate her spinning wheel at the East Side Businessman's hobby show. Erica is wearing a Swe... |
| Date: | 02 03 1958 |
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| Description: | Attendees look at displays of hand-loomed placemats and tablecloths at Farm and Home Week at the University of Wisconsin. They include, left to right: Mrs.... |
| Date: | 10 08 1959 |
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| Description: | Mary Paulick sitting on the floor while working on a large braided rug. |
| Date: | 11 07 1959 |
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| Description: | Winners of the Wisconsin "Make It Yourself with Wool" contest are shown with their work. At left is Kay Lyon, junior winner (ages 14 - 17); on the right is... |
| Date: | 10 12 1959 |
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| Description: | Kate Schultz is shown with a sport coat she made for her husband from fabric that she wove. She also hooked the rug at her feet, upholstered the chair she ... |
| Date: | 05 15 1961 |
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| Description: | Barbara Blaedel, Sylvia Graf, and Mary Woelfel wear hats they designed and made, and will model at the University League brunch and program. |
| Date: | 1952 |
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| Description: | Women of the Hafezi family making bread with ingredients supplied by United States aid to Iran. One of the women weaves a basket. |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Hand-colored lantern slide showing an Caid Belaïd, Tuareg interpreter for Alonzo Pond's 1925 Algerian expedition, sitting on pillows and rugs on the floor ... |
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| Description: | A quilt appliqued with a cherry tree design. The design includes orange and scarlet birds and bright red cherries. There are brown vines and red and yellow... |
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