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Creator(s): University of Leeds (1904-)(Compiler); (Maker (individual)); Linen Industry Research Association(Other)

Title: Vegetable Fibres: Hemp [exhibit card]

Date created: 1936

Accession number: ITC 2011.140.2

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/nplrptck

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/669849

Collection group(s): International Textile Collection

Description

Cream museum exhibit card from the Department of Colour Chemistry, displaying 15 annotated photomicrographs of lengths and cross sections of hemp fibres associated with textiles.

Top row: Bologna Hemp, ends and typical fibres, stained with Herzberg's solution, mounted in Euparal, X800.

Middle row: i. Bologna Hemp, hand cut sections X800, stained with Delafield's Haematoxylin; ii. Bologna Hemp, chemical sections, X400; iii. Manila Hemp, end and typical fibres, narrow lumen and broad lumen, stained with Herzberg's solution, mounted in Euparal, X800.

Bottom row: Manila Hemp cross sections: i. narrow lumens ii. broad lumens (i and ii. are hand cut sections, stained with Delafield's Haematoxylin), iii. chemical sections X400.


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: 'Hemp. Bottom' in pencil.

Back: 3/5 back (?) in pencil.

Accession details

Accession number: ITC 2011.140.2

Accession date: 18/02/2011

Source: Transfer; University of Leeds, School of Chemistry

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