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Union News, issue 286
Archive Item

Union News, issue 286

05/11/1965

Debates Back Ramsey in Letter to Wilson

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Archive File

Concertino on a well-known theme

1947

1947 2pf Written on "Early One Morning". Dated May 1947. Ink, with pencil revisions, in music MS book. Marked "Piano II" on title-page. Enclosed is a second copy, ink, on a gathering of four bifolia, ...

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Coin

Denomination: denarius

Date(s): 125 BCE

Issuer/creator: Manius Acilius Balbus

Place: Rome

Material: silver


Archive File

Results of experimental work conducted in the Leather Industries Laboratory of the Yorkshire College, Leeds

Yorkshire College Department of Leather Industries

1898-1903

Volume bound in half-leather. Ff.14v-181v blank.

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batik fabric
Textile

batik fabric

20th century

Fabric length with a pattern of foliage and birds executed in blues and browns with pink highlights, on a cream background. The pattern was created using batik wax-resist dyeing technique.

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Archive Print Item

Codicem Arnamagnaeanum 286, 2̊ : codicem Arnamagnaeanum 4, 4̊, codicem Arnamagnaeanum 453, 12̊, Legem Iutiae

Skautrup, Peter (1896-); Finch, R G; Jutland (Denmark)

1972

"English version [of the preface] by R.G. Finch."

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Textile

Lieut. Harry Dent Crompton Prize Fund Scheme Design and Structure of Woven Fabrics Reference Collection

The Textile Institute

1941-1942

String bound with grey hard covers. Black text on cover. Book no.23. Contains varied samples of woven dress and furnishing fabrics. Monochrome and polychrome fabrics with textured, embroidered or ...

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Été 1959 Envoi 1
Textile

Été 1959 Envoi 1

Société des Nouveautés Textiles

1959

Softback with grey coloured covers. Black text on cover. Sample book of fabrics for the fashion industry issued 13th January 1959. Contains fabric samples. Most are of heavyweight woven fabrics wit...

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Design
Textile

Design

Marchini, Guido (1929-2008)

1950-2008

Painted stylised organic design with a pattern of pink and blue flowers with vertical and horizontal stripes of green leaves on a blue checkerboard background

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Mau ana ikat
Textile

Mau ana ikat

late 20th-early 21st Century

A mau ana (literal: 'little blanket') shoulder cloth warp ikat. The piece consists of two mirror image panels, both of which contain three large flowers with leaves. The main part of the piece is colo...

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