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Compound Cloths [lecture notes]
Yorkshire College
1874-1904
Hardback with black covers. Impressed and pencilled text on cover. Contains handwritten inscriptions, line diagrams and point paper patterns. Includes 13 woven fabric sample which are unpatterned o...
![Class A Silk Autumn 1895 [folder of mounted samples]](https://digital.library.leeds.ac.uk/28601/1.hashomepageThumbnailVersion/669278_001.JPG)
Class A Silk Autumn 1895 [folder of mounted samples]
1895
Green folio of mounted samples with museum label. It contains 68 Class A and 7 Class B samples with dyed silks from the year 1895, including silk velvets and black silks, possibly for mourning. All c...
Morrell stitch samples
Morrell, Professor Anne B
c. 2016
A set of 13 stitch samples made by Professor Anne Morrell to illustrate the method of creating stitch patterns for her publication 'Embroidered & Stitched Textiles Fragments from Kashmir' (2017). All ...
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...
![Terylene' Polyester Fibre [educational box]](https://digital.library.leeds.ac.uk/33773/1.hashomepageThumbnailVersion/670570_001.JPG)
Terylene' Polyester Fibre [educational box]
Imperial Chemical Industries
1956
A royal blue box with card compartments containing an educational sample and information kit, which includes posters, a flow chart, an educational chart, a selection of literature describing 'Terylene...
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 ...
Impressions [pattern book]
1928-1931
Hardback with brown covers and spine. Black text on cover and spine. Contains fabric designs painted on paper. Also contains very few woven fabric samples with printed patterning. Most designs dep...