Ploughed acre

Knitted Textile

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Swatch includes Ploughed Acre at the top and the variation, Checkered Acre, at the bottom.

Swatch includes Ploughed Acre at the top and the variation, Checkered Acre, at the bottom.

Name/Title

Ploughed acre

Entry/Object ID

2020.1.335

Description

From the book: "The simple Ploughed Acre pattern is easily varied, and is given an eyelet-like quality by the simple expedient of staggering the pattern every eighth row. The ladder effect is retained by the decreases, which still fall above one another in vertical lines."

Collection

Barbara Walker Swatch Project

Category

Chapter 10 : Lace

Acquisition

Accession

2020.1

Made/Created

Artist

Linda Barron

Time Period

circa 2020

Place

County

Yorkshire

Country

England, United Kingdom

Continent

Europe

Notes

Linda works in an old textile mill that has been converted into a museum. She has been knitting for over 50 years!

Lexicon

Getty AAT

Concept

knitters, knitting (needlework), knitting (process)

Parts

Count

3

Parts

Swatch, handwritten note, handwritten tag.

Color

Blue

Location

Box

Barbara Walker Swatch Collection

Room

Library