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Textile: ITC 2011.129 Contains digital media

Viscose Rayons; Cuprammonium Rayons [exhibit card]

University of Leeds (1904-); Courtaulds Ltd.

1935

Cream coloured museum exhibit card from the Department of Colour Chemistry, displaying annotated photomicrographs of lengths and cross sections of viscose rayons and cuprammonium rayons. In the top se...

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Textile: ITC 2022.177

shawl

late 20th Century

A small bright red loosely woven shawl with tassels.

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Textile: ITC 2022.35 Contains digital media

sarung nggoli

c. 2005

A sarung nggoli from Bima. A bright check in pink, green, blue and yellow.

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Textile: ITC 769 Contains digital media

batik style printed fabric

late 20th century

This fabric sample has a pattern of brown fish against a background of green geometric stars.

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Textile: ITC 2022.135.1 Contains digital media

sarung

late 20th Century

A sarung, or sarong, in bright pink and silver metallic thread, with a supplementary weft silver metallic ucik (diamond) pattern.

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Textile: ITC 1759 Contains digital media

hat

Child's hat made of cotton with hand embroidery in bright multicoloured chain stitch, with five elephants around the border, the crown having a red cotton ground and a flower motif.

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Textile: ITC 2011.128 Contains digital media

Viscose Rayons [exhibit card]

University of Leeds (1904-); Courtaulds Ltd.

1935

Cream museum exhibit card from the Department of Colour Chemistry, displaying annotated photomicrographs of lengths and cross sections of Viscose Rayons X800, 150 den. The top section shows 5 lengths:...

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Textile: ITC 2011.130 Contains digital media

Cellulose Acetate Rayons; Cellulose Nitrate Rayons [exhibit card]

University of Leeds (1904-); Courtaulds Ltd.

1935

Cream museum exhibit card from the Department of Colour Chemistry, displaying 12 annotated photomicrographs of lengths and cross sections of Cellulose Acetate Rayons x 800 (rows 1 and 2) and Cellulose...

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Textile: ITC 2022.173

hip wrapper

late 20th Century

A brightly coloured woven hip wrapper made up of two pieces sewn together, predominantly in bright green and purple stripes with supplimentary weave geometric motifs in orange, pink and yellow, and fr...

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Textile: ITC 1684 Contains digital media

chatri

Green cotton insert for a tunic, with Pipli appliqué work decoration in yellow and fuchsia pink with small shisha mirrors. Pipli appliqué is characterised by bright colours and standardised represe...

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Textile: ITC 1761 Contains digital media

hat

Child's hat, hand embroidered in many bright colours, with a green cotton ground fabric on the crown with a stylised flower motif, and two flower motifs alternating around the border. The motifs are o...

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Textile: ITC 2022.98 Contains digital media

ikat

late 20th Century

A weft ikat kain in bright green with zigzags in pink, blue, orange, yellow and pale green and fringing at one side. It is probably intended to be worn as a sarung, but hasn't yet been sewn up.

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