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An album of drawings, paintings and etchings
Freemantle, W T
Dec 1829
Purchased at the Bazaar held at York for the benefit of York County Hospital, includes poems and news cuttings relating to the occasion. Album cover is decorated with drawing of York minster.
sampler
Horsfall, Hannah
19th Century
A faded symmetrical sampler in green, red (faded) and cream, with a central feature of a religious poem and the name Hannah Horsfall in a zigzag border. Other features include a central lion and unic...
sampler
Trais Huwe, Mary
1826
Embroidered cross stitch sampler mounted on board, by Mary Trais Howe, aged 8 years, 1826. The sampler is worked in polychrome silk threads and features horizontal bands of alphabet, numbers, repeat...
pair of sleeve bands
late 19th century
This item is composed of a pair of decorative sleeve bands which have been joined together to form a single panel. The patterning is composed of twelve gourds in various colours and patterned with va...
stencil
early 19th-mid 20th Century
This katagami stencil, used in resist dyeing of fabric, depicts a banner or poem slip hanging from a plum tree branch. The motif is held in place within the stencil using sewn support (itotsuri). ...
Weave Truth With Trust
Duxbury, Mabel (1924-2010)
1944-c. 1950
A loose-leaf, hand written manuscript which includes annotations and corrections. The work has been submitted as a marked educational assignment, but some chapters appear to be subsequent additions. ...
Aso-Oke cloth strip
c.1976-1984
This is a single strip of Aso-Oke cloth, woven in Ilorin, northern Yorubaland, by a man on a horizontal loom. Aso-Oke is a highly prized form of Yoruba handwoven cloth. In this strip, the basic weave ...