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

Title: Union Gaberdines. Union Coverts [exhibit card]

Date created: early 20th-mid 20th Century

Accession number: ITC 2011.119

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/c7v9gz79

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/666343

Collection group(s): International Textile Collection

Description

Cream museum exhibit card from the Department of Colour Chemistry, displaying annotated samples of dyed union gaberdines (4) and union coverts (3) in greys and browns. The samples are shown with frayed edges revealing the colours of the threads.


Union Gabardines: Sample 1. cotton dyed in piece with sulphur dyes; wool cross-dyed with acid dyes (special process). Samples 2. and 3. dyed in one bath, or wool dyed first and then cotton. Sample 4. dyed in separate bath with direct dyes.

Union Coverts: Samples 5 - 7. woven from dyed yarns, one white and one coloured thread being twisted for the warp.


Samples are glued and taped to apertures.

Exhibit card from unlabelled box.

Physical characteristics

Category: Textile

Technique: Textile-Dyed

Medium: card; cotton

Object: width 50cm height 68cm

Accession details

Accession number: ITC 2011.119

Accession date: 18/02/2011

Source: Transfer; University of Leeds, School of Chemistry

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