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Creator(s): Green, Professor Arthur George - University of Leeds (1864-1941)

Title: Primuline Colours [dyeing samples]

Date created: 1887

Accession number: ITC 2017.44

Place of creation: Collected in United Kingdom - Leeds

Manifest: https://iiif.library.leeds.ac.uk/presentation/cc/pfh8zhyg

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/669221

Collection group(s): International Textile Collection

Description

This book functions as a box that contains twelve samples of dyed cotton cloth with primuline coulours. On the front cover, a handwritten text was added underneath the title (also written by hand): 'These dyeings upon cotton cloth were exhibited in Bradford on February 9th 1888 in illustration of the paper upon Primuline communicated to the Society of Dyers and Colourists on that date. Arthur G. Green'.


Arthur G. Green discovered the aniline based dye called primuline. On the inside of the cover another handwritten text was added: 'These patterns were prepared in 1887 when Primuline was first brought out.'

Physical characteristics

Category: Textile

Technique: Pattern Book

Medium: card; cotton cloth

Measurement details: cranes pattern: 54 × 24 cm

leaf pattern: 45 × 27 cm

primuline: 28 × 28 cm

Features

These dyeings upon cotton cloth were exhibited in Bradford on February 9th 1888 in illustration of the paper upon Primuline communicated to the Society of Dyers and Colourists on that date. Arthur G. Green'. & 'These patterns were prepared in 1887 when Primuline was first brought out.'

Accession details

Accession number: ITC 2017.44

Accession date: 01/03/2017

Source: Transfer

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