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wall hanging
19th century
A tapestry woven in coloured silks with painted details. The composition of this item incorporates activities such as the dragon boat regatta and musicians playing various instruments in boats, surro...
Designs
Pesel, Louisa F (1947)
1870-1947
A loose A4 folio entitled "Designs" with 'Some odd photos' crossed off, containing approximately 20 designs predominantly on tracing paper, in pencil or pin-pricked.
Design
Marchini, Guido (1929-2008)
Before 1965
Painted stylised organic design with a pattern of pink and yellow flowers on a brown with blue polka dot background
Brush
late 19th-mid 20th Century
A small wooden brush with an animal fibre head (hog bristles or deer hair are typical materials) bound into a wooden handle.
endek
late 20th Century
This is an 'Endek', a type of weft ikat made in Bali. It is made of black cotton with the 'Dindin Gai' motif.
![Singapore Cambrics (Cotton) [exhibit card]](https://digital.library.leeds.ac.uk/29978/1.hashomepageThumbnailVersion/669785_001.JPG)
Singapore Cambrics (Cotton) [exhibit card]
University of Leeds (1904-); T. Cross & Co. Bolton
1932
Cream museum exhibit card from the Department of Colour Chemistry, displaying eight annotated samples of dyed cotton cambrics. Samples are glued to apertures. Section 1. Heading of Indanthrene blue...
Cotons Été 1952 Envoi D
Société des Nouveautés Textiles
1952
Softback with red covers. Black text on cover. Contains garment fabric samples including openwork and gauze. Woven patterning in 1-7 colours includes floral sprigs and sprays, leaves, stripes (some...
Aniocha cloth
c. 1965
An Aniocha cloth toga, made in the Western Igbo area of Nigeria. The basic weave is in white with narrow red warp stripes. Red and black weft float patterns are in the form of weft stripes and geometr...
shawl pattern sample
Shawl border fragment or pattern sample. Twill tapestry woven design with embroidered detail. The border sample has a surround on three sides of multicoloured stripes.
mummy cloth
early 11th-mid 7th Century BCE
Fragment of fine, cream-light brown, plain woven fabric. At one end of the fragment are five blue dyed weft thread stripes of 8, 3, 3, 3 and 8 threads (the last stripe has lost threads due to fraying...
Coleman Collection related archives
late 20th Century
A collection of labels, notes, cards and packaging relating to items from the Coleman Collection of Indonesian textiles. These were originally stored with the textiles. Items relate to ITC 2022.19, ...
Design
Marchini, Guido (1929-2008)
Before 1965
Painted floral design with a pattern of pink and orange flowers on a red background