Katherine Amirkarian's sample book

Book

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BLUE: The TATTER Textile Library

Front cover

Front cover

Name/Title

Katherine Amirkarian's sample book

Entry/Object ID

2023.1.1

Description

Brown leather-bound book held together by a brown rope. Intricately tooled cover, stamped with "SCRAP BOOK" in gold lettering. Book contains 155 small lace samples in a stunning array of techniques sewn onto the pages. The smallest is a frothy circle of needle lace, barely a centimeter in diameter, and the largest is a block of filet crochet nineteen centimeters long and fourteen centimeters wide.

Collection

Katherine "Gadar" Amirkanian Lacemaking Collection

Category

Sample books, Lace

Acquisition

Accession

2023.1

Source or Donor

Jeanette Koumjian

Acquisition Method

Gift

Source (if not Accessioned)

Jeanette Koumjian

Notes

Gift of Jeanette Koumjian, April 2023.

Lexicon

Getty AAT

Concept

lace (needlework)

Legacy Lexicon

Category

Sample book

Inscription/Signature/Marks

Type

Inscription

Location

Top of first page

Transcription

I made this book 1907 / Katherine Amirkarian.

Ethnography

Notes

Maker is Armenian-American.

Dimensions

Dimension Description

Book

Height

29.4 cm

Width

21.3 cm

Depth

1.7 cm

Parts

Count

155

Parts

Contains 155 lace samples.

Book Details

Author

Katherine Amirkarian

Date Published

1907

Notes

Length: 17 pages

Location

Box

Box 54

Cabinet

Object Cabinet

Room

Studio

Web Links and URLs

"Collection Spotlight: Katherine Amirkarian," May 2024.

General Notes

Note Type

Materials

Note

Leather, paper, rope, metal, lace fabric (multiple fibers), adhesive tape.