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Textile: ITC 100 Contains digital media

mandarin square or rank badge

19th century

The central motif on this mandarin square, or rank badge, is the golden pheasant, which was a symbol used by a second rank civil official. The surrounding motifs include bats and Buddhist precious th...

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Textile: ITC 2016.100

rolled photograph

20th century

A rolled black and white photograph of textile (mantel).

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Textile: ITC 2012.100 Contains digital media

Wooden block and cap

late 19th-mid 20th Century

Hand carved wooden block and cup, possibly used to create repeating pattern in fabric dying.

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Textile: ITC 2022.100 Contains digital media

Boz (woman’s shawl)

late 20th Century

A green and yellow cotton shawl known as a boz, to be worn on the shoulders. This woman’s shawl is of a Western shape, and not perceived to be an indigenous Uzbek textile.

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Textile: ITC 2009.100 Contains digital media

shawl

1830-1850

The phala (large patterned border at each end of the shawl) has a total of eight densely patterned right-hand facing botehs, separated into compartments by a series of vertical lines between symmetric...

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Textile: ITC 2011.100 Contains digital media

Hand Woven Silk Fabrics [exhibit card]

University of Leeds (1904-); Warner & Sons

1932

Cream museum exhibit card from the Department of Colour Chemistry, displaying 9 annotated samples of dyed silk textiles in different types of weave. Some samples glued to apertures, some attached wit...

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Textile: ITC 2000.100

Cotons Été 1950 Envoi C

Société des Nouveautés Textiles

1950

Softback with red covers. Black text on cover. Contains garment fabric samples. Mostly geometric woven patterning in 1-6 colours includes stripes (some with geometric or floral dobbies), plaid, dot...

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Textile: ITC 2010.100 Contains digital media

Design

Marchini, Guido (1929-2008)

1950-2008

Painted stylised organic design with a pattern of blue and green flowers in a horizontal stripe layout

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Textile: ITC 2014.100 Contains digital media

Bida cloth

c.1978-1982

This is a light grey handwoven Bida cloth, woven by a Nupe woman on a vertical loom. (Bida is the capital of the Nupe kingdom in the Nigerian Middle Belt.) It is made up of two broad panels stitched t...

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Textile: ITC 2000.509.100 Contains digital media

shawl pattern sample

Shawl border fragment or pattern sample. Twill tapestry woven design with embroidered detail. Possibly self fringed at the bottom.

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Textile: ITC 2000.9.100 Contains digital media

mummy cloth

early 11th-mid 7th Century BCE

Fragment of fine, mid brown, plain woven fabric.

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Textile: ITC 2015.65

Jacquard furnishing fabric

1968

A double weave jacquard in greens and turquoise with a stylised floral design. Selvedge on one side, other sides cut.

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