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Spanish samplers
Pesel, Louisa F (1947)
early 20th Century
A loose A4 portfolio entitled "Spanish Samplers, rough notes and references for Spanish stitches, samplers 8,9,10 & 11 in V&A M Portfolio III". This is in reference to the Victoria and Albert Museum,...
bark cloth
1965-1972
A bark cloth from Tonga, with a 6x4 large checkerboard design, with alternative squares of mottled brown with central five-point stars above banners of text, with the text differing between squares. ...
![Jute Fabrics [exhibit card]](https://digital.library.leeds.ac.uk/29813/1.hashomepageThumbnailVersion/666330_001.JPG)
Jute Fabrics [exhibit card]
University of Leeds (1904-); T. Boyle & Son, Leeds (1782-1940)
early 20th-mid 20th Century
Cream museum exhibit card from the Department of Colour Chemistry, displaying seven annotated samples of jute. Samples are glued to apertures. Samples 1 - 3: 40" Hessians 8 oz, 10 oz, 12 oz sample...
Catalogue of Parts for the Hollingworth and Knowles Patent Open Shed Fancy Loom
Hutchinson, Hollingworth & Co. Ltd.
1898
Hardback book with multicoloured covers and engraving on cover. Contains 8 labelled plates showing components of the Hollingworth and Knowles open shed high speed fancy loom.
![Sundour Velours [exhibit card]](https://digital.library.leeds.ac.uk/29984/1.hashomepageThumbnailVersion/669804_001.JPG)
Sundour Velours [exhibit card]
University of Leeds (1904-)
1933
Cream museum exhibit card from the Department of Colour Chemistry, displaying eleven annotated samples of dyed velour. From top left: Samples 1-9 are of cotton weft pile in different stages of prepara...
![Linens [exhibit card]](https://digital.library.leeds.ac.uk/29816/1.hashomepageThumbnailVersion/666333_001.JPG)
Linens [exhibit card]
University of Leeds (1904-)
early 20th-mid 20th Century
Cream museum exhibit card from the Department of Colour Chemistry, displaying ten annotated samples of linens with different types of weave. Samples are glued to apertures. From top left. Samples...
![Sundour Fabrics [exhibit card]](https://digital.library.leeds.ac.uk/29990/1.hashomepageThumbnailVersion/669810_001.JPG)
Sundour Fabrics [exhibit card]
University of Leeds (1904-); Sundour
1933
Cream museum exhibit card from the Department of Colour Chemistry, displaying 16 annotated samples. The samples show different dying methods on various types of cotton, silk and wool textiles. Samples...
batik sampler
late 20th Century
A batik tulis sampler showing 64 batik designs with their names. Some names are in Bahasa Sunda (BS, Sundanese), others in Bahasa Indonesia (BI) and one in Bahasa Jawa (BJ, Javanese). The receipt ca...
linen cloth
A piece of plain woven linen fabric with a dark purple band of woollen tapestry weaving at one end and self-fringed at the opposite end. The linen warps are S twisted with an average of 8 wefts per cm...
mummy cloth
early 11th-mid 7th Century BCE
Fragment of fine, light brown, plain woven fabric. At one end of this fragment are five stripes in blue dyed weft thread, these are 8, 3, 3, 3 and 10 threads wide.
Morrell stitch samples
Morrell, Professor Anne B
c. 2016
A set of 13 stitch samples made by Professor Anne Morrell to illustrate the method of creating stitch patterns for her publication 'Embroidered & Stitched Textiles Fragments from Kashmir' (2017). All ...
samples of spun fibres
J & P Coats, Ltd; James Chadwick & Brother Ltd.; Ardern; Greenwood
20th Century
A biscuit tin with an image on the lid of a knight on horseback and a mismatching base with cartoon figures in red suits and fur hats. The tin contains of balls of threads of different materials and f...