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shawl fragment
Textile

shawl fragment

mid - late 18th Century

A fragment consisting of part of the border of a red shawl. The fabric is twill woven. The design consists of a repeating series of large buta motifs. The predominant colours are reds but there are...

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cap
Textile

cap

A round cap. The cap has decorative quilting made of plain woven linen(?). The quilting is supported internally by heavy cellulosic(?) cord held with decorative stitching of linen thread. The exter...

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shawl fragment
Textile

shawl fragment

early 19th Century

Fragment of the border of a shawl. Patterning depicts left facing butehs on a red ground with floral patterning within and around them. Along the outside edge is a narrow border with floral patterni...

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shawl fragment
Textile

shawl fragment

early 19th Century

Fragment of the border of a shawl. Patterning depicts left facing butehs on a red ground with floral patterning within and around them. Along the outside edge is a narrow border with floral patterni...

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shawl fragment
Textile

shawl fragment

early 19th Century

Fragment of the border of a shawl. Twill tapestry woven with a cream ground and woven patterning in red and blue. Widest border has left facing butehs with large flowers inside and smaller floral mot...

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shawl fragment
Textile

shawl fragment

early 19th Century

Fragment of the corner of a border of a shawl. With a cream ground and woven patterning in red and blue. Widest border has left facing butehs with large flowers inside and smaller floral motifs arou...

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shawl
Textile

shawl

c. 1830

Palla (large patterned border at each end of the shawl): a total of eight densely patterned right-hand facing botehs, separated into compartments by a series of vertical lines between symmetrically ar...

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moon shawl (Chandar)
Textile

moon shawl (Chandar)

c. 1830

Complete shawl in interlocking twill tapestry. Dense floral patterned quarter (corner) medallions and central medallion. Hashia (outside border) of running ornament. One set of borders which have b...

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shawl
Textile

shawl

c. 1820

Palla (large patterned border at each end of the shawl): shows eight large botehs with revers facing smaller botehs within. Densely patterned using interlocking twill tapestry. Predominance of red. ...

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Textile

Lieut. Harry Dent Crompton Prize Fund Scheme, Design and Structure of Woven Fabrics

The Textile Institute

1942-1943

String bound softback with buff coloured back cover. Reference Collection no. 24. Contains woven dress and furnishing fabric samples. Most are polychrome and patterned with stripes, checks or geome...

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shawl
Textile

shawl

early 18th-mid 18th Century

A fragment consisting of part of a cream shawl including the border. The fabric has been twill woven using fine yarn. The main border design consists of a repeating series of large floral motifs se...

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Ajrakh samples
Textile

Ajrakh samples

Seven joined samples depicting types of Ajrakh resist block printing attached to paper descriptions, all samples are in browns or creams and have the same pattern of circles, stars and dots.

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