Systeme de la Mecanique a la Jacquard
Cooper Hewitt

Systeme de la Mecanique a la Jacquard

1848

Label: board covers; pen and ink with gouache on paper pages; cotton, linen and silk samples
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
CC0 — Public Domain
Cooper Hewitt

Book written in delicate longhand, unsigned, and with no title page. Contains 141 mises-en-carte, 104 samples of fabrics, in addition to numerous technical drawings and full notes for loom arrangements and descriptions of many fabrics.

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