Details
Creator(s): University of Leeds (1904-)(Compiler); (Maker (individual)); Linen Industry Research Association(Other)
Title: Vegetable Fibres: Flax [exhibit card]
Date created: 1936
Accession number: ITC 2011.140.1
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/jttw11mx
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/669848
Collection group(s): International Textile Collection
Description
Cream museum exhibit card from the Department of Colour Chemistry, displaying 12 annotated photomicrographs of lengths and cross sections of flax as used in textiles. Top row: Six images of lengths stained with Herzberg's solution, mounted in Euparal, X800. These images show ends and typical fibres.
Middle row: i. double fibres unstained X800; ii. cross section, hand cut sections X800 stained with Delafield's Haematoxylin; iii. cross section chemical sections X400.
Bottom row: i. cross section of part of stem X300; ii. fibrillar structure after caustic soda treatment and compression X400; iii. fibres of bleached damask swollen by the viscose process X250.
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
Front, centre bottom: 'Flax. Bottom' in pencil.
Back: 3/5 front (?) in pencil.
Accession details
Accession number: ITC 2011.140.1
Accession date: 18/02/2011
Source: Transfer; University of Leeds, School of Chemistry
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