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![Natural and Dyed Furs [exhibit card]](https://digital.library.leeds.ac.uk/29795/1.hashomepageThumbnailVersion/666309_001.JPG)
Natural and Dyed Furs [exhibit card]
University of Leeds (1904-)
early 20th-mid 20th Century
Cream museum exhibit card from the Department of Colour Chemistry, displaying 13 annotated samples of dyed textiles. Samples are attached to apertures with tape. There are 4 kind of samples: 1- Ame...
mounted samples
Joah Lodge and sons
mid to late 19th century
13 boards with mounted samples of woven fabrics. All sample boards have 'Joah Lodge & Sons' in print along the bottom. The first 5 boards show samples that are darker in colour including black, purpl...
Looms [order book]
1886-1888
Hardback with black covers and red leather spine. Gold text on spine. Book no.14 or 13 (number 3 seems to have been stamped on top of number 4). Contains printed forms for recording orders of loom ...
![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 ...
![Sundour Fabrics [exhibit card]](https://digital.library.leeds.ac.uk/29990/1.hashomepageThumbnailVersion/669810_001.JPG)
Sundour Fabrics [exhibit card]
University of Leeds (1904-); Sundour
1933
Cream museum exhibit card from the Department of Colour Chemistry, displaying 16 annotated samples. The samples show different dying methods on various types of cotton, silk and wool textiles. Samples...
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...