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woven panel with flowers
Barker, Mary (1907-1999)
20th Century
An oblong handwoven panel with fringing with a khaki and white warp and a khaki weft in the top third and a grey and pale blue weft in the bottom two thirds. There are four sporadic supplementary wef...
glass negatives of emboidered flower borders
20th-mid 20th Century
A large box of two glass negatives of 'embroidered floral borders" relating to the teaching of Louisa Pesel.
Dyeing experiments with wild flowers II M-Z
Hummel, John James (1850-1902); Perkin, Professor A G (1861-1937)
late 19th Century
A manuscript by J.J. Hummel, and possibly also by A.E. Perkin, showing the results of dyeing experiments with plants. The names of the authors appear to be added on the first page with a different han...
Design
Marchini, Guido (1929-2008)
1950-2008
Painted floral design with a pattern of blue and green stylised flowers on a background of yellow flowers
fragment
18th Century
Dress silk with alternating columns of white stylized flowers on a blue background and smaller white flowers on a rust coloured ground.
shawl
20th century
The main pattern on this shawl is of leaves and flowers on a green metallic coloured background. This patterned area is bordered on all sides by a contrasting pattern of flowers.
fragment
before 1920
Two pieces of a complex weave brocaded dress fabric. The background olive green has deep red chevrons in the pattern. The foreground is patterned with bunches of realistic flowers and swirls of styliz...
Blackwork sampler
Pesel, Louisa F (1947)
1870-1947
Sample of blackwork border depicting stylised flowers.
