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sampler
Carter, Rhoda
1844
Polychrome embroidered sampler mounted on board, by Rhoda Carter, 1844. Dedicated to William Carter. Sampler is worked in 16 horizontal bands of cross stitch and star stitch and features, alphabet,...
mummy cloth
early 11th-mid 7th Century BCE
Rectangular fragment of fine, mid-dark brown plain woven fabric. Fragment would have been fringed but this has been lost. At the edge are five blue dyed weft stripes of 7, 3, 3, 3 and 15 threads.
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Piece Dyed Fabrics [exhibit card]
University of Leeds (1904-)
early 20th-mid 20th Century
Cream museum exhibit card from the Department of Colour Chemistry, displaying eight annotated samples of dyed silk and silk and viscose textiles of various types of patterned and textured weaves. The...
batik sampler
late 20th Century
A batik tulis sampler showing 64 batik designs with their names. Some names are in Bahasa Sunda (BS, Sundanese), others in Bahasa Indonesia (BI) and one in Bahasa Jawa (BJ, Javanese). The receipt ca...
Old and Rare Scottish Tartans
Stewart, Donald William
1893
A hardback with black covers and gold text on cover and spine. 61 pages of text plus fabric samples of tartans and monochrome illustrations. Samples include (seen in media) Balmoral (#1), Stewart (#...
sewing samples for examination
mid 20th Century
A group of 31 samples (all but one on grey card) and a handwritten note in red ink by the tutor. Samples display different sewing techniques, often on patterned mid-century type fabric, and a few hav...
Ajrakh samples: stages of production
Khatr. Mohammadbhal Siddiquebhal
c 2000
Sixteen long samples depicting the stages in Ajrakh block printing, attached to paper descriptions, with two loose. All samples are in brown, indigo, black, red or cream, and show the same design of ...