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fragment
1720-1740
Silk dress fabric with large flowers and a suggestion of the lace background patterns associated with the period.
Letter
13th Feb 1676
Letter to Sir Godfrey Copley from Matthew Bigge concerning the livery and prices of buttons and lace.
Note of money disbursed for Thomas Lister of Arnoldsbigging
18th century
Including for one suit of childbed linen laced and one plain
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.
fragment
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.
fragment
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...
fragment
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 ...
fragment
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...
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.
fragment
1710-1760
The background is a repp weave with a self coloured trailing lace ribbon design on the front of the fabric.
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'.