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wall hanging
late 19th century
This kesi wall hanging is a portrait of two Daoist immortals: Lu Dongbin and He Xiangu. The former sits on a decorated couch with a fly whisk, a Daoist symbol of power, in his hand. He Xiangu, the o...
Notes on lettering
Pesel, Louisa F (1947)
1900-1947
An untitled buff folder containing a tracing of gaelic imagery, 4 folded and one half manuscript on lettering, and 3 pieces of source material.
Paper Cone
late 19th-mid 20th Century
A stiffened paper cone used in Japan to draw a freehand design on fabric with a rice starch resist paste before dyeing, a technique known as tsutsugaki. Sometimes these are used in combination with s...
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Sundour Screen Prints [exhibit card]
University of Leeds (1904-); Sundour
1933
Cream museum exhibit card from the Department of Colour Chemistry, displaying 6 annotated samples of screen printed cottons and linens by Sundour using vat dyes. Samples are glued to apertures. Sam...
Design
Marchini, Guido (1929-2008)
1950-2008
Painted geometric design with alternating blue and yellow vertical organic stripes over red horizontal stripes. The red stripes overlayed with a purple diamond design.
Cotons Été 1953 Envoi B
Société des Nouveautés Textiles
1953
Softback with red covers. Black text on cover. Contains garment fabric samples including openwork, pekin and voile. Woven patterning in 1-9 colours includes trailing stems, flower heads, floral spr...
Aniocha cloth double weave
1966-1967
A white on white double weave Aniocha cloth, made in the Western Igbo area of Nigeria. This is women’s weave; two broad panels woven on a broad vertical loom and sewn together. There are fringes at...
C4001-C5000 [loom book]
1952-c.1965
Hardback with black covers. Book no.5. Contains pre printed forms for recording details of cloth woven. Filled in in blue ink. Details mostly of synthetic fabrics.
kerawang
c. 1999
A light green textile intended to be made into a woman's outfit, with three embroidered kerawang panels decorated with floral motifs to make a collar and cuffs. These have been created by making delic...
needlework exercises
1958
A loose leaf folder, with pages held by treasury tags, of needlework samples with descriptions. This child's project of sewing excercises has been marked by a teacher. 22 pages of handwriting and 13 ...
shawl pattern sample
Shawl border fragment or pattern sample with a twill tapestry woven design with embroidered detail. Around three sides are borders with multicoloured stripes, which is uneven at one end with a short ...
mummy cloth
early 11th-mid 7th Century BCE
Fragment of fine, cream/light brown coloured, plain woven fabric. There is a weaving fault in the fragment. At one edge are three blue dyed warp thread stripes of 14, 6 and 6 threads.