Window blind sample – Woven with wooden sticks, metallic gold yarn and cream yarn as warp. Weft stripes/bands of color in browns, cream, orange, yellow and gold. Alice Mattil made several samples (see related objects) of placemats and window blinds. A note with the objects reads, I did many placemats and window blinds for family and friends. I experimented for weavings using natural Kansas materials.

sample, woven

Natural Material – Non fiber (i.e. wood, bamboo strip)//Unknown (Udf1)

Artifact (Udf10)

American – 20th c (Udf22)

Stripes (Udf6)