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Description (Brief):

Low Warp loom for Beauvais Tapestry; "Basse Lisse". From Beauvais, France. Horizontal loom, having a floral and fruit design traced on the cotton warp, showing a completed portion of the tapestry design woven by hand with 'spoulins' (shuttles or bobbins). The spoulins are numbered .1-.12

Date Made: before 1918

Location: Currently not on view

Place Made: France: Hauts-de-France, BeauvaisFrance

Web Subject: Textile Processing and Production

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See more items in: Home and Community Life: Textiles

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Credit Line: Gift of Mrs. Charles M. Ffoulke, 1918

Data Source: National Museum of American History

Id Number: TE.T03847.000Catalog Number: T03847.000Accession Number: 62275

Object Name: Loom, Caswellloom, tapestry

Metadata Usage: CC0

Guid: http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746b4-3663-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa

Record Id: nmah_648455

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