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Creator(s): University of Leeds (1904-)(Compiler); Courtaulds Ltd.(Manufacturer (institution))

Title: Viscose Rayons [exhibit card]

Date created: 1935

Accession number: ITC 2011.128

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/ltffhpgn

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/669837

Collection group(s): International Textile Collection

Description

Cream museum exhibit card from the Department of Colour Chemistry, displaying annotated photomicrographs of lengths and cross sections of Viscose Rayons X800, 150 den. The top section shows 5 lengths: 27 fils, bright normal serrated; 27 fils dulled after spinning; 36 fils Dulesco oil dulled in spinning; 40 fils Delustra pigment dulled in spinning; 40 fils Delustra dark ground illumination.

The next 3 images are of cross sections as follows: bright normal serrated; Dulesco; Delustra. The final 3 images are of bright normal serrated: 250 den, 30 fils; 150 den, 36 fils; 150 den, 100 fils.


Exhibit card from original box entitled 'Photomicrographs of Fibres'

Physical characteristics

Category: Textile

Technique: Photograph

Medium: card; paper (photograph)

Object: width 50cm height 68cm

Features

The microphotographs have been glued to the card from the back, slightly overlapping. Each piece has been numbered in pencil: 1 -10 and also 12a. These are not in sequence since presumably the order was altered in the final layout. Item 12a is also annotated 'YF. after spinning'. There is also a small strip of paper glued to the top at the back, possibly the remains of an additional note.

Accession details

Accession number: ITC 2011.128

Accession date: 18/02/2011

Source: Transfer; University of Leeds, School of Chemistry

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