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Union News, issue 292
Archive Item

Union News, issue 292

21/01/1966

Pirate Insurance' Row Boils Over

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Archive Print Item

Coin

Denomination: denarius

Date(s): 49 BCE

Issuer/creator: Manius Acilius Glabrio

Place: Rome

Material: silver

cushion cover
Textile

cushion cover

1986

A cushion cover with a geometric design produced by discharge printing. The discharge printing process begins with the dyeing of the whole of the fabric then a paste applied with a printing block to ...

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Textile

The Textile Institute, Lieut. Harry Dent Crompton Prize Fund Scheme, Design and Structure of Woven Fabrics, Reference Collection No.11

The Textile Institute

1928-1929

A string bound book with yellow covers with black text on front cover. Containing samples of patterned clothing, furnishing and household fabrics. 12 pages.

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Textile

Hiver 1959 Envoi 2

Société des Nouveautés Textiles

1959

Softback with grey coloured covers. Black text on cover. Sample book for the fashion industry of dress and skirt fabric, issued 4th September 1959. Contains woven samples with polychrome patterning....

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Design
Textile

Design

Marchini, Guido (1929-2008)

Before 1965

Painted design of leaves in orange, yellow and pink on a blue background

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batik tulis
Textile

batik tulis

late 20th Century

A hand drawn batik in a black /indigo background with birds surrounded by organic decorative motifs in the undyed colour. Designed to be cut up and sewn into a man’s shirt of traditional colours. ...

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Archive Item

Shakespearean-stage matters.

17-Jan-1925

Nation & Athenaeum, 17th January 1925, pp 554-555 Review of books by H W Whanslaw, G B Harrison and H Dugdale Sykes.

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Name: Fornication

Reference: Carlton Hill A1

Meeting: Knaresborough MM 1721-53

Pages: 144, 173, 176-7, 184, 213-5, 468