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Total number of records: 617

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Textiles616
Archives1

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France387
Paris309
United Kingdom162
Lyon58
Leeds53
Japan34
Manchester28
Winchester18
Bradford10
Indonesia6

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Societe Des Nouveautes Textiles279
Courtaulds Ltd.35
Chanay & Pupat31
Bilbille & Co30
Yorkshire College29
Pesel, Louisa F26
The Textile Institute25
P.Chanay & Cie24
Blackburn, Tolson and Co.17
David Sowden and Sons16

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From 1900495
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batik text panel
Textile

batik text panel

late 20th Century

A batik text panel with a kawung motif border in indigo and brown on undyed white cloth.

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Oates Bros. (Halifax) Ltd. Shades 1965-1968

Oates Bros (Halifax) Ltd

1964-1968

A ring binder with grey and black covers and black spine. Gold text on cover and white text on spine. Contains dyed yarns mounted on black card. With silver text on the cards.

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Oates Bros (Halifax) Ltd Shades 1962-1964 [shade book]

Oates Bros (Halifax) Ltd

1962

A dark blue and white binder with gold text on the cover and white text on the spine. Contains cards with samples of dyed thread with a handwritten letter to Mr Snowden in the front. Non paginated.

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Textile

Le Dessinateur [pattern book]

1894

Hardback with black covers and spine, red label on spine with gold text. Includes descriptive text in French and fabric samples and point paper patterns. Nos.276-280 bound in a single volume.

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Le Dessinateur
Textile

Le Dessinateur [pattern book]

1897

Hardback with black covers and spine, red label on spine with gold text. Bound copies of Le Dessinateur nos 301-310 containing samples illustrating trends in garment fabric. Includes descriptive tex...

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Textile

Class E Plain and Figured Mantlings, Autumn 1895

Yorkshire College

1895

A hardback with green covers, red label and gold text on spine. Book no. 3.

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Textile

Some notes and references for intensive embroidery week, Church Farm Feb 8-13 1925 [notebook]

Pesel, Louisa F (1947)

1926

A paperback notebook with squared paper, with pencil manuscript and designs (predominantly text, on colour and design).

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Textile

Brief for Louisa Pesel Exhibition

ULITA: an Archive of International Textiles (2004-2019)

2005

Print out text relating to 2006 exhibition in ULITA (University of Leeds International Textile Archive).

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The Crochet Book
Textile

The Crochet Book

1867

A white softback publication with black text on the cover, and black and white fold-out illustrations, 36 pages.

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Textile

The Pesel Collection [printed notes]

1995

Printed text related to the exhibition held in Leeds University Gallery during 1995 Ars Textrina Conference.

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shawl pattern sample
Textile

shawl pattern sample

Shawl pattern sample. Embroidered on a twill woven ground. With a mark or text sewn at the bottom in white thread.

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Textile

bark cloth

1965-1972

A bark cloth from Tonga, with a 6x4 large checkerboard design, with alternative squares of mottled brown with central five-point stars above banners of text, with the text differing between squares. ...

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