Details
Creator(s): University of Leeds (1904-)(Compiler)
Title: exhibit card of knitting
Date created: early 20th-mid 20th Century
Accession number: ITC 2011.108
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/d97m8mn8
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/666340
Collection group(s): International Textile Collection
Description
Cream museum exhibit card from the Department of Colour Chemistry, displaying six annotated samples of multi-coloured dyed wool yarn and its knitted form. Samples of yarn are attached by tape to apertures. The knitting samples are glued to apertures.
Three samples of yarn (1. browns; 2. green and brown, 3. brown and yellow) each with a corresponding sample of knitting.
The yarn samples are headed: 'Wool yarn wound on a large drum and printed in several colours as in the Tapestry Carpet Process.'
The knitting samples are headed: 'Pattern produced by Knitting when the length and number of stitches are in a certain ratio to the length of the colours on the yarn.'
Exhibit card from original box entitled
'(1) West of England Cloths (2) Miscellaneous'
Physical characteristics
Category: Textile
Technique: Textile-Dyed
Medium: card; wool
Object: width 50cm height 68cm
Accession details
Accession number: ITC 2011.108
Accession date: 18/02/2011
Source: Transfer; University of Leeds, School of Chemistry
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