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wall hanging
early 19th century
This hanging depicts the Daoist paradise where immortals come together to present their congratulations to Shoulao, the god of longevity. Such a composition was a traditional theme in widespread use,...
catalogue cards
Pesel, Louisa F (1947)
20th century
25 long and square buff 'cataloguing cards' with black and white photographs of textiles attached (mainly samplers).
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Cotton Gaberdines; Cotton Coverts [exhibit card]
University of Leeds (1904-)
early 20th-mid 20th Century
Cream museum exhibit card from the Department of Colour Chemistry, displaying 6 annotated samples of dyed cotton gaberdines and 3 sampes of cotton coverts. Samples are attached to appertures with tap...
spatula
early-mid 20th Century
A large wooden spatula with four stamps at the top, a hole in the handle for hanging and a wooden cover on the blade.
fringed weave
late 20th Century
An orange weave, possibly made of plant fibre, with supplementary weft cotton patterning. The design is in white, black, green, grey and yellow thread, and consists of intermittent stripes of crosses,...
shawl
mid 19th-late 19th Century
Twill/tapestry woven shawl with a deep patterned border (phala) across each end. Each border is composed of seven elongated buteh shapes, each woven with the same design but varying colour schemes. Th...
Cotons Été 1951 Envoi F
Société des Nouveautés Textiles
1951
Softback with red covers. Black text on cover. Contains garment fabric samples. Woven patterning in 1-7 colours includes plaid, houndstooth, stripes, chevrons and dots. Some samples have texturing...
Aniocha cloth
1966-1967
An Aniocha cloth head tie, made in Ogwashi Uku in the Western Igbo area of Nigeria. The basic weave is in white with narrow red warp stripes. Red and black weft float motifs are in the form of weft st...
shawl pattern sample
Shawl border fragment or pattern sample with a jacquard woven design. The main design panel is stepped in at one end. There is a border on all sides of multicoloured horizontal stripes.
mummy cloth
early 11th-mid 7th Century BCE
Rectangular fragment of fine, cream/light brown, plain woven fabric. The fragment has five blue weft thread stripes at one edge formed of 8, 3, 3, 3 and 6 threads.
linen cloth
A piece of plain woven linen fabric with a dark purple band of woollen tapestry weaving at one end and self-fringed at the opposite end. The linen warps are S twisted with an average of 8 wefts per cm...