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Creator(s): University of Leeds (1904-)(Compiler)

Title: Lancashire Fabrics. Corset Cloth [exhibit card]

Date created: early 20th-mid 20th Century

Accession number: ITC 2011.81

Site Location(s): Created in - Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom( 53.7965, -1.54785 )

Place of creation: Made in United Kingdom - Leeds

Manifest: https://iiif.library.leeds.ac.uk/presentation/cc/xlnlfbt6

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/666325

Collection group(s): International Textile Collection

Description

Cream museum exhibit card from the Department of Colour Chemistry, displaying ten annotated samples of dyed corset cloth with cotton warp and viscose weft. Samples are glued to apertures. (One aperture with tape strip)


Apertures entitled: 1. loom state; 2. singed; 3. desized, scoured and bleached;

4. dyed with direct dyes; 5. backfilled and finished. All these samples with the same small flower brocade pattern, three in cream and two in pink.


A further five apertures show different types of brocade designs. All in pink.



Exhibit card from original box entitled '(1) Sundour Fabrics (2) Edinburgh Weavers (3) Home School of Crafts (4) Indian Cottage Industry'

Physical characteristics

Category: Textile

Technique: Textile-Dyed

Medium: card; cotton; viscose

Object: width 50cm height 68cm

Features

No 5' in pencil, centre bottom front. '2/28 Back' in pencil lower left verso. '(1) in pencil, top right verso.

Accession details

Accession number: ITC 2011.81

Accession date: 18/02/2011

Source: Transfer; University of Leeds, School of Chemistry

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