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wall hanging
19th century
This is a portrait of the queen of heaven holding her child and surrounded by two maids and four musicians on the clouds.
'Family tree types of embroidery ...'
Pesel, Louisa F (1947)
1900-1947
2 rolled manuscript 'family tree' style diagram of Embroidery terminology.
Design
Marchini, Guido (1929-2008)
Before 1965
Painted design with horizontal bands of orange, green, yellow and brown with a brown horizontal scrollwork motif, and a blue stylised floral design.
Printing plates and mould
late 19th-mid 20th Century
Two metal printing plates with a floral sprig design in outline and infill to produce a two coloured print.
metallic weave
late 20th Century
A narrow weave made of indigo dyed cotton with gold metallic threads and black tassels.
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Yarn Dyed Tapestries [exhibit card]
University of Leeds (1904-); Edinburgh Weavers
1933
Cream museum exhibit card from the Department of Colour Chemistry, displaying 6 annotated samples of yarn dyed tapestries. The first four samples show two-tone vat dyed tapestries with abstract patte...
Cotons Été 1953 Envoi E
Société des Nouveautés Textiles
1953
Softback with red covers. Black text on cover. Contains garment fabric samples including openwork, satin and gauze. Woven patterning in 1-8 colours includes floral sprigs and sprays, foliage, strip...
C6001-C7000 [loom book]
1967-1976
Hardback with black covers and spine. Book no.7. Contains pre printed forms for recording details of cloth woven. Filled in in blue, black and red ink. Details mostly of synthetic fabrics
Kente style cloth strip
1985
A multicoloured Kente style cloth strip 'scarf' with supplementary weft floats (including the name of one of the donors, ANN O'HEAR). A men's weave fabric woven on a narrow horizontal loom. This clot...
shawl fragment
Shawl border fragment or pattern sample. Twill tapestry design with embroidered detail.
mummy cloth
early 11th-mid 7th Century BCE
Fragment of fine, cream coloured, plain woven fabric. At one edge of the fragment are four blue dyed weft thread stripes of 8, 3, 3 and 3 threads. At the other end of the fragment is an area of dark...
sampler
Hinchcliffe, Mary - Tivy Dale Church School, Cawthorne
1846
Sampler by Mary Hinchliffe, Tivy Dale School, the gift of the Lady Elizabeth Spencer Stanhope, December the 24th 1846. Design is possibly a representation of a country estate, featuring a scene of t...