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Dobcross Hollingworth & Knowles Open Shed Fast Running Loom [catalogue]
Hutchinson, Hollingworth & Co. Ltd.
late 19th-mid 20th Century
Softback with brown covers, with part of cover missing. Contains black and white plates numbered 1-16 (plates 14 and 17 missing) showing loom parts with part names and numbers alongside.
Katazomi illustrative process samples and raw materials
2017
11 square cotton samples in various stages of katazome (stencil) dyeing using brushes, including completed pieces, along with their wooden drying supports. Also included are samples of natural ingred...
silk fibre display box
Lister and Co.
20th Century
A black box with 16 compartments containing labelled samples of silk at different stages of processing. The 14 samples demonstrate silk from cocoon and raw fibres to dyed and spun yarn. The samples of...
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 (#...
![Piece Dyed Fabrics [exhibit card]](https://digital.library.leeds.ac.uk/29803/1.hashomepageThumbnailVersion/666319_001.JPG)
Piece Dyed Fabrics [exhibit card]
University of Leeds (1904-)
early 20th-mid 20th Century
Cream museum exhibit card from the Department of Colour Chemistry, displaying eight annotated samples of dyed silk and silk and viscose textiles of various types of patterned and textured weaves. The...
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 ...