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Making-up room commencing 1948 silks
1948-1953
A black pattern book of florals. Dates are found between April 1948 and February 1953. Includes loose samples and blank pages.
wall hanging
late 19th century
This item forms the left hand side of a pair of wall hangings intended to decorate a living room. The design theme is longevity and happiness. This is demonstrated by the use of the auspicious motif...
David Sowden & Sons Ltd Low Wells Loom Works, Briggate, Shipley. Vol.2 [inventory]
David Sowden and Sons (1856-1856)
1922
Semi-hardback with black covers and spine. Gold text on cover. Contains the 2nd volume of a typed inventory of the contents of Low Wells Loom Works. With handwritten annotations on some pages inclu...
wall hanging
late 19th century
This item forms the right hand side of a pair of living room wall hangings. The design theme of the hanging is wealth and nobility. This is demonstrated by the use of auspicious motifs such as the p...
Quilting by Penelope
Wm. Briggs & Co. Ltd.
mid 20th Century
A booklet with quilting as decorative technique. The booklet has an introduction on the history of quilting and an explaination of English quilting in relation to Italian quilting. This publcation giv...
fibre display box
20th Century
A wooden La Dollar cigar case containing samples of cotton fibre. The samples consist of drawing and slubbing, roving, raw and dyed, and a spool of spun cotton. One sample is dyed red and one is dyed ...
cotton fibre display box
20th Century
Two plain blue boxes with cotton samples for educational purposes. Both boxes contain samples of cotton. One box contains two samples, one undyed or raw cotton and the other sample is of red dyed cott...
cuff panel for woman's informal garment
late 19th century
This panel is assembled from two symmetrically patterned pieces which would be cut vertically in half to form two cuff panels for a garment. The theme of the patterning is "fu guei man tang", or the ...
wall hanging
late 18th century or early 19th century
This would have hung in the large central room of a traditional Chinese house during celebrations. The principal colour variations have been achieved by the kesi weaving technique, but finer details ...
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Facial makeup in Beijing Opera [head scarf]
Shanghai Edelweiss Silk Woolen Co., Ltd.
2000-2004
A square of silk in white with a black / yellow border of striped pyramids, with Chinese symbols in each corner, which translate as 'Chinese Peking Opera'. The central rectangular design is of two Ch...