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Textile: ITC 2012.102 Contains digital media

Erinoid Buckles

early 20th Century

Buckles made by erinoid plastic and dyed with acid dyes, possibly at the School of Colour Chemistry, University of Leeds.

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Textile: ITC 2017.26 Contains digital media

Printing on cotton-yarn [sample folder]

Farbwerk Muhlheim vorm A. Leonhardt & Co. (1879-)

late 19th-mid 20th Century

A concertina booklet with navy blue cover made in Germany, and numbered 151. A total of 56 different samples of coloured cotton-yarn and referenced. The text is in German, French and English, and inc...

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Textile: ITC 2017.62 Contains digital media

Indigo on cotton cops [dyeing samples]

Farbwerke Hoechst (1863-)

Oct-05

This blue box contains five numbered yarn samples of the Indigo dye on cotton cops. On the inside of the box is a diagram of the Indigo cops dyeing apparatus constructed by H. Krantz, Aix-la-Chapelle ...

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Textile: ITC 2000.18

Bilbille & Co Printed Silks July 1966 no.10

Bilbille & Co

1966

Softback with cream coloured covers, orange labels on cover. Contains woven fabric samples (including twill, jersey, etamin, armure) with printed patterning including flowerheads, floral sprigs, geom...

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Textile: ITC 2000.72

Bilbille & Co Woven Silks and Rayons July 1963 no.10

Bilbille & Co

1963

Softback with cream coloured covers. Brown text on cover. Contains fabric samples (including satin, jacquard weaving, crepe, ottoman, armure, taffeta). Woven patterning includes ornamental flowers, ...

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Textile: ITC 2000.73

Bilbille & Co Woven Silks and Rayons September 1963 no.13

Bilbille & Co

1963

Softback with cream coloured covers. Brown text on cover. Contains fabric samples (including jacquard weaving, matelasse, satin, crepe, armure, toile). Woven patterning includes ornamental floral de...

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Textile: ITC 2000.75

Bilbille & Co Woven Silks and Rayons November 1963 no.15

Bilbille & Co

1963

Softback with cream coloured covers. Brown text on cover. Contains fabric samples (including jacquard weaving, crepe, velvet, armure, chiffon, satin, ottoman, leno). Woven patterning includes flower...

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Textile: ITC 2000.76

Bilbille & Co Woven Silks and Rayons January 1964 no.1

Bilbille & Co

1964

Softback with cream coloured covers. Brown text on cover. Contains fabric samples (including jacquard weaving, matelassé, leno, toile, serge, gauze, satin, chiffon, poplin). Woven patterning includ...

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Textile: ITC 2018.25 Contains digital media

samples of spun fibres

J & P Coats, Ltd; James Chadwick & Brother Ltd.; Ardern; Greenwood

20th Century

A biscuit tin with an image on the lid of a knight on horseback and a mismatching base with cartoon figures in red suits and fur hats. The tin contains of balls of threads of different materials and f...

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Textile: ITC 2011.167 Contains digital media

lace mat

c. 1990

A circular lace mat with large central flower design in cream cotton.

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Textile: ITC 2017.34 Contains digital media

Victoria Pure Blue B on woollen yarn [dyeing samples]

Badische Anilin- & Soda-Fabrik A.G. (1865-)

Dec-04

This folded leaflet has four woollen yarn with Victoria Pure Blue B, and dyeing instructions. It is numbered 1652.

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Textile: ITC 2017.52 Contains digital media

Alizarine blue black B for cotton printing [dyeing samples]

Fried. Bayer & co. Elberfeld.

1895

This booklet shows the Alizarin Blue Black B dye printed on patterned cotton samples. Descriptive text is in German, English and French.

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