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Textiles9
Archives7
Books and printed items5
Indexes2

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International Textile Collection9
Brotherton Collection7
Brotherton Collection Manuscript Verse3
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society3
English Literature2
Art and Antique Market1
Incunabula1
John Evan Bedford Library of Furniture History1

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mysticism -- judaism.2
cabala -- liturgy -- texts.1
cabala -- texts.1
english poetry1
episcopacy1
judaism -- italy.1
judaism -- liturgy -- texts.1
lace and lace making1
manuscripts, hebrew -- 18th century -- texts.1
needlework1

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Sackville, Charles, Earl of Dorset2
Aaron Berechiah Ben Moses1
Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton 1st Baron (1856-1930)1
Catherine of Siena, Saint (1347-1380)1
Civile, Marco1
Cordovero, Moses Ben Jacob1
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Textile

fragment

1720-1740

Silk dress fabric with large flowers and a suggestion of the lace background patterns associated with the period.

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Archive Item

Letter

13th Feb 1676

Letter to Sir Godfrey Copley from Matthew Bigge concerning the livery and prices of buttons and lace.

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Archive Item

Note of money disbursed for Thomas Lister of Arnoldsbigging

18th century

Including for one suit of childbed linen laced and one plain

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Archive Item

Thomas Brown billhead

Thomas Brown

16 Jun 1778-01 Sep 1779

Pictorial billhead of Thomas Brown for an order of crimson silk lace for Thomas Adams Esq. Trader details written on reverse.

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Textile

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late 18th Century

A piece of silk dress material. The fabric is a complex weave brocade with a a trailing lace pattern and sprigs of flowers. The sample is made up of four pieces joined together.

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Textile

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1735

Silk brocade in a pink and black striped background with a brocaded pattern of flowers and lace/ribbon, the colours of which are created by long stripes of differing colours of thread throughout the w...

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Textile

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1740-1770

Complex weave dress fabric with brocading. The design, which is weft faced comprises of stylized roses with a background of lace ribbon. The supplementary weft fibres of the pattern do not extend the ...

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Textile

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18th Century

Mid eighteenth century complex weave brocaded dress silk. The fabric has a trailing lace pattern in white with bunches of stylized flowers in blue and yellow. There is a small piece of selvedge with b...

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The intriguing milliners and attornies clerks : A mock-tragedy in two acts. As it was design'd to be acted at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane. Written in imitation of the style and manner of -- With The lace-women, a satire; and Poems on several occasions

Robinson, William (fl. 1738)

1738

By Mr Robinson of Kendal; attributed to William Robinson. cf. Nicoll, Allardyce. A history of early eighteenth century drama, 1700-1750.

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Textile

fragment

1710-1760

The background is a repp weave with a self coloured trailing lace ribbon design on the front of the fabric.

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BC MS Lt 93, f. 33r: Lady Mary Montagu's poem
Archive Item

Miscellaneous collection of eighteenth-century English poetry and prose, with additional later material.

c.1750-1770

Contains 71 English poems, mainly anonymous. The prose works include 'A summary character of Clarinda never published' and 'Knitted lace collar'.

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