Details
Title: Singapore Cambrics (Cotton) [exhibit card]
Date created: 1932
Accession number: ITC 2011.109
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/c8c6k89g
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/669785
Collection group(s): International Textile Collection
Description
Cream museum exhibit card from the Department of Colour Chemistry, displaying eight annotated samples of dyed cotton cambrics. Samples are glued to apertures.
Section 1. Heading of Indanthrene blue, iron buff and Turkey red.
Soft finish
Sample 1. grey;
Sample 2. caustic soda boil; chemic; sour; 2 soda ash boils; chemic; sour; finish pure.
Firm finish
Sample 3. grey
Sample 4. lime steep; sour; 2 soda ash boils; chemic; soda ash boil; sour; finish
Section 2. Pure satin finish for export to S. America
Sample 5. grey
Sample 6. lime boil at 25 lbs pressure; sour; soda ash boil; chemic; soda ash boil; chemic; sour; beetle; calender
Section 3. Handkerchief with vat dye border.
Sample 7. grey
Sample 8. soda ash scald at 80 C; chemic; soda ash scald; chemic; sour; fill slightly; calender
Exhibit card from original box entitled
'(1) West of England Cloths (2) Miscellaneous'
Physical characteristics
Category: Textile
Technique: Textile-Dyed
Medium: card; cotton
Object: width 50cm height 68cm
Features
No 1 Bottom' in pencil. Centre bottom.
Accession details
Accession number: ITC 2011.109
Accession date: 18/02/2011
Source: Transfer; University of Leeds, School of Chemistry
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