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Total number of records: 116

Count of Record type

Record typeCount
Archives57
Textiles29
Indexes14
Books and printed items11
Objects3
Art items2

Top 10: Collection group

Collection groupCount
International Textile Collection29
Brotherton Collection28
Feminist Archive North16
Liddle Collection16
Rudolf Laban Collections12
English Literature9
Leeds Poetry7
Brotherton Collection Manuscript Verse4
Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture3
Maurice de Sausmarez Archive2

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
culture2
english language - dialects2
folk music2
painting2
persons2
photographs2
portraits2
theatre2
british1
charities1

Top 10: Place

PlaceCount
Indonesia10
Guatemala5
United Kingdom4
Leeds3
Nigeria3
Todos Santos3
Uzbekistan3
Bukhara2
Ilorin2
Java, Central2

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)4
Anonymous3
Colman, George (1762-1836)3
Baldwin, John R2
Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)2
Powell, George2
Residual Fund, Ownded By the Trustees of the 6th Baron De Saumarez Will Trust2
Royal House of Hanover2
Settled Chattels Fund, Owned By the Trustees of the 6th Baron De Saumarez Will Trust2
Sotheby'S (Firm)2

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From 17004
From 18009
From 190082
From 20006

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Up to 17994
Up to 18997
Up to 199974
Up to latest23

Textile

shirt

c.1975

A long sleeved man’s shirt in vertical thin red and blue on white stripes, with two thick red stripes down the front and back centre. The shirt is made up of two pieces of weaving, going over the s...

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Textile

shirt

c.1975

A man’s long-sleeved shirt in red with intermittent thin vertical stripes in orange, blue, purple, green and white. Pieces are stitched together by hand, including using green thread. The front an...

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Textile

shirt

c.1975

A man’s shirt, with a crisscross weave design on red. The back and front are made of one woven piece. There is a front collar slit, an attached short collar, short sleeves and cuffs (with an openi...

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shirt
Textile

shirt

before 1947

This shirt is embroidered in bands around the neck and cuffs, down the front, back and sides. The patterns are composed of two parallel lines with opposing half flower heads and a wavy line between t...

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shirt
Textile

shirt

before 1947

This shirt is embroidered with borders of circular flower heads around the yoke, sleeves and hem; also as vertical bands at the front and back. Flower heads with triple circular heads are used as fil...

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Archive Object File

shirt

c.1914-1918

1 Shirt, cotton, khaki, with 2 collar studs, part of the uniforms of Prof. C. Chibnall

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shirt
Textile

shirt

20th century

This crepe cotton shirt has short sleeves and a round notched neckline. The pattern of geometric shapes made from circular dots of colour has been tie dyed. Parts are the white colour of the origina...

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shirt
Textile

shirt

20th century

This crepe shirt has long sleeves and a round, collarless neck opening. The neckline is notches at the front and secured with two cloth buttons, one at the front and one at the back. The fabric has ...

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shepherd's shirt
Textile

shepherd's shirt

before 1972

A shepherd's shirt from the Fulani tribe of Nigeria. It is round necked, and constructed using narrow strips of plain coarse weave fabric approximately 13.5 cms wide, in natural colour. There is embro...

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shirt and trousers
Textile

shirt and trousers

late 20th Century

A plain black cotton shirt with brown buttons, and matching trousers. They would be worn by men in the isolated Badvi communities of West Java.

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Archive File

The Shirt by Lauro Olmo

1962

Undergraduate/Adult. Annotated typed playscript. Note: for actor playing Lola. Title page damaged, pages 41 & 42 loose. End pages missing.

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batik shirt length
Textile

batik shirt length

late 20th - early 21st Century

A shirt length of batik 'cap' (block print) on silk, in maroon and yellow on white in a lattice pattern with larger motifs in diamonds in the central areas. A missed pattern match is evident. The dif...

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