Textile Sample from Sample Book

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Tan fabric sample with a grid pattern of thin brown stripes and thicker dark purple stripes. The sample is rectangular, mounted on a piece of brown cardboard with a white sticker in the top-right corner displaying the number "3708" in black text, oriented vertically. The sample and cardboard sit on a blue surface, with a thin layer of a transparent substance visible on the surface of the fabric, and some darker smudge marks on the bottom edge and middle. Textile Sample from Sample Book, artist unknown.