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Crêpe Soie et Coton [pattern book]
19th-mid 20th Century
Hardback with mottled black covers and white spine. Contains woven fabric samples with polychrome printed patterning of geometric patterns or floral and leaf motifs. Samples are numbered non consecut...
Première Saison 1955 Envoi B
Société des Nouveautés Textiles
1955
Softback with dark blue covers. Black text on cover. Sample book for the fashion industry of menswear fabric, issued 10th February 1955. Contains woven fabric samples of varying weights with polychr...
Design
Marchini, Guido (1929-2008)
Before 1965
Painted stylised floral design with a pattern of pink flowers (roses) on a green background
velvet fragment
before 1920
Velvet wool in light brown with stamped repeat design. Blue selvedge and back weave.
fan case
mid 19th-early 20th Century
This fan case is made up of overall yellow knotted embroidery with blue butterfly and peony designs. There is a flap over section and a modern sticker within giving details of the retailer, which is d...
place mat
c. 1970
A stiff lace and embroidered lace place mat or doily. The edges are scalloped and the central brightly coloured satin stitch embroidered motif is of four flowers on one sprig.
Bahia fibre sample
mid 20th Century
Sample of bahia fibre, a plant fibre used for making coarse brush bristles and cabling. The fibre was used for brushmaking in Europe from the mid-nineteenth to mid-twentieth centuries, subsequently p...
Design
Marchini, Guido (1929-2008)
1950-2008
Painted design with a red, blue and white checkerboard pattern with light blue flowers (roses), quatrefoils and white birds.