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Marchini, Guido2
Chanay & Pupat1
Michal-Ladichere Freres1
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panel of silk brocade
Textile

panel of silk brocade

19th century

This is a piece of polychrome Yun brocade produced in Nanjing. It has a golden yellow satin ground with polychrome weft patterning of large cranes with peach or linzhi twigs held in their beaks. Aro...

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Fancy Dobbie Matting [sample]
Textile

Fancy Dobbie Matting [sample]

early 20th Century

Sample of matting, possibly made in Dundee. Paper label attached with crest. Woven geometric design with stripes and squares in red, green and cream.

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thangka
Textile

thangka

mid 19th-early 20th Century

A painted thangka panel bordered in red/gold and yellow/gold silk brocade and inset into a brown and gold silk brocade hanging, with white cotton edging. The silk brocade designs include Buddhist sym...

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Textile

Dupatta (shawl)

late 20th Century

A woven Dupatta (shawl) in orange, black, red and white stripes, with a white fringed edges.

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Textile

Dispositions 13 [pattern book]

Chanay & Pupat (1926); Michal-Ladichère Frères

1899-1900

Hardback with mottled dark red covers and green spine. Book no.13. Contains handwritten ink inscriptions detailing fabric production/orders classified by pattern. Most pages include samples of the ...

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Design
Textile

Design

Marchini, Guido (1929-2008)

1950-2008

Painted design with a pink, blue and brown cartouche motif containing a trefoil, on a background of black and blue vertical stripes.

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Textile

Draperies Hiver 1952 pour Échantillonnage Hiver 1953 B

Société des Nouveautés Textiles

1952-1953

Softback with dark blue covers. Black text on cover. Contains fabric samples with geometric woven patterning in 2-4 colours includes stripes, dots, checks, checkerboard, optical illusion designs, zi...

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Adire sample
Textile

Adire sample

late 20th Century

This piece is part of an indigo resist printed cloth (Adire) with a repeat design and border. The cloth was originally woven with a striped design in a complex weave, and been reused. The block prin...

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Design
Textile

Design

Marchini, Guido (1929-2008)

1950-2008

Painted floral design with a pattern of pink, orange and red bunches of flowers on a blue background

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