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Total number of records: 106
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| Collection group | Count |
|---|---|
| International Textile Collection | 54 |
| Liddle Collection | 21 |
| Art and Antique Market | 8 |
| Brotherton Collection | 8 |
| John Evan Bedford Library of Furniture History | 8 |
| English Literature | 3 |
| Leeds Animation Workshop | 2 |
| Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture | 2 |
| Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society | 2 |
| Brotherton Collection Manuscript Verse | 1 |
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woven blanket
before 1975
Woven textile in black, indigo and white stripes. It is believed to be one of the pieces brought back to the University of Leeds from South America by Professor Aldred Barker in the 1920s.
Hausa blanket
c.1964-1966
This is a Hausa camel hair blanket from northern Nigeria. It has been handwoven in five strips and then handsewn together. It has a weft stripe design with the dominant colours being white, brown, red...
tufted blanket
c.1980-1985
This is a large multicoloured blanket made up of 9 strips, each approximately 17 cm (7 inches) wide, and sewn together. It features elaborate weft designs, with tufted stripes (‘cut pile’) alterna...
mau (blanket)
c. 2006
A woven Mau (selimut or blanket) in ten orange and yellow bands. Each band contains within it a succession of crosses and eight-headed hook and rhomb motifs, interspersed with black and orange or blac...
warp ikat blanket
c. 1997
A warp ikat blanket in a red and black geometric design on a cream undyed thread, with elongated diamonds and twisted tassels. Smaller motifs of stars and flowers appear on the striped borders.
warp ikat blanket
c. 1982
A warp ikat blanket (or pori lonjong) from Komba Village, Rongkong (a remote village in the mountains between Toraja and Central Sulawesi). It is red, blue, green, brown, and white, and there are vari...
warp ikat blanket
c. 1983
A large warp ikat blanket, possibly from Flores. The colors are blue, black and red in plain and ikat stripes.
warp ikat blanket
c. 1995
A warp ikat blanket in red, pink and white, produced for the tourist trade in Bali. This depictsrows of animals on broad striped bands, including snakes and birds, possibly chickens. It is in the st...
Major Barrell's Blanket Factory
1910-1933
Files containing correspondence, notes, plans and specifications for a blanket factory requested by a Major Barrell. Also included are machinery brochures and quotations for the purchase of the machin...
exhibit card of blanketing fabric
University of Leeds (1904-)
c. 1935
Cream museum exhibit card from the Department of Colour Chemistry, displaying 6 dyed woollen blanket samples with satin bindings, together with a machine-embroidered fabric label. The label reads: 'Te...
Lecture on "The history of the Witney blanket industry"
Early, Patrick; International Wool Secretariat. Department of Education; Wool Education Society
1956