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Johnston, George P	1
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Stewart, Donald William	1
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Textile

mummy cloth

c. 2500 BCE

Fragment of fine light brown/cream, plain woven fabric with one selvedge present. This is a wrapping from the mummy of Nekht-Ankh. The tomb of Khnum-Nakht and Nekht-Ankh in Der Rifeh, was excavated...

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cloth fragment

c. 766 BCE

Cloth fragment from the cemetery at Tarkhan excavated by Petrie.

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Old and Rare Scottish Tartans

Stewart, Donald William

1893

A hardback with black covers and gold text on cover and spine. 61 pages of text plus fabric samples of tartans and monochrome illustrations. Samples include (seen in media) Balmoral (#1), Stewart (#...

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sewing samples for examination

mid 20th Century

A group of 31 samples (all but one on grey card) and a handwritten note in red ink by the tutor. Samples display different sewing techniques, often on patterned mid-century type fabric, and a few hav...

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Vegetable Fibres: Cotton X800 [exhibit card]

University of Leeds (1904-)

early 20th-mid 20th Century

Cream museum exhibit card from the Department of Colour Chemistry, displaying 9 annotated photomicrographs of unstained cross sections of cotton fibres. Top row: i. Sea Island, raw and mercerised. ii...

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