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Total number of records: 401

Count of Record type

Record typeCount
Textiles258
Books and printed items141
Archives2

Top 10: Collection group

Collection groupCount
International Textile Collection258
Brotherton Collection33
English Literature9
Herbert Read Collection6
Leeds Russian Archive2
Art and Antique Market1
Cookery Collection1
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections1
John Evan Bedford Library of Furniture History1
LGBTQ1

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
travel12
world war, 1939-194512
political parties7
incunabula6
cooking, french5
furniture5
early printed books4
jews4
manners and customs4
printing4

Top 10: Place

PlaceCount
France401
Paris113
Lyon93
Paris (France)7
Switzerland7
Italy6
Basel3
United States of America3
America2
England2

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Societe Des Nouveautes Textiles66
Chanay & Pupat56
P.Chanay & Cie35
Pencheon, James Michael (1924-1982)25
Textiles-Paris-Echos23
Bilbille & Co22
Michal-Ladichere Freres18
Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)9
Moore, John (1729-1802)8
Bouvet - G. Bouvet6

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From 160011
From 170021
From 1800101
From 1900262
From 20002

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Up to 169911
Up to 179921
Up to 189937
Up to 1999326
Up to latest3

Textile

pattern book [pattern book]

Rojon et Durand; Dolbeau; du Closel

19th-mid 20th Century

Hardback with blue and black mottled covers and grey spine. Contains woven fabric samples including crepe and moire: some unpatterned, some with woven patterning, most with printed patterning of abst...

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pattern book

P.Chanay & Cie

1937-1942

Hardback with grey/brown covers and spine. Text in blue crayon on cover and spine. Book no.16. Contains mostly monochrome and some polychrome woven fabric samples with geometric, striped or chequed...

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pattern book

P.Chanay & Cie

1931-1935

Hardback with black and orange mottled covers and black spine. Contains woven fabric samples. Unpatterned or with amorphous patterning, stripes, floral motifs. Varied weaves including gauze and broc...

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Armures [pattern book]

late 19th-mid 20th Century

Hardback with black covers and red spine, with black text on cover and spine. Contains woven fabric samples. In the first and third sections the samples are monochrome and patterned with small geome...

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Armures [pattern book]

late 19th-mid 20th Century

Hardback with black covers and orange-brown spine, with black text on cover and spine. Contains woven fabric samples with loom configuration diagrams for each sample. Samples are unpatterned or have...

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Matieres [pattern book]

P.Chanay & Cie

1936-1952

Hardback with grey-brown covers and spine. Book no.54 (changed from 52). Contains ink inscriptions possibly giving details of design, production and costs of named patterns. Includes samples of fab...

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919 [pattern book]

19th-mid 20th Century

Hardback with mottled black covers and white spine. Contains fabric samples with one or two colour woven jacquard patterns, most with floral motifs. Samples are numbered and labelled in ink inscripti...

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Damas [pattern book]

Chanay & Pupat (1926)

late 19th-early 20th Century

Hardback with black and white mottled covers and white spine. Contains fabric samples with woven floral patterning in one or two colours. Includes pattern numbers. Multiple colourways included for ...

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Gaufrage [pattern book]

Société Lyonnaise de Teinture, Impression, Apprêt et Gaufrage

early 20th-mid 20th Century

Hardback with black covers. Contains monochrome woven fabric samples in varied colours with woven or impressed patterning of flowers, geometric or abstract designs. Collection no.33. Includes patter...

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Indes [pattern book]

Chanay & Pupat (1926)

late 19th-mid 20th Century

Hardback with mottled blue and yellow covers and white spine. Contains fabric samples with woven floral patterning in one or two colours including jacquard weaving.

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pattern book 992

19th-mid 20th Century

Hardback with mottled blue covers and white spine. Contains samples of brocades in two or three colours mostly patterned with floral and plant motifs and classical and Egyptian themes. Pattern numbe...

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635 [pattern book]

19th-mid 20th Century

Hardback with mottled blue and black covers and white spine. The first signature contains woven fabric samples with printed patterning in 2-5 colours depicting fruit, flowers, geometric motifs. Some ...

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