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![Bradford Fabrics Bunting [exhibit card]](https://digital.library.leeds.ac.uk/29822/1.hashomepageThumbnailVersion/666339_001.JPG)
Bradford Fabrics Bunting [exhibit card]
University of Leeds (1904-)
early 20th-mid 20th Century
Cream museum exhibit card from the Department of Colour Chemistry, displaying seven annotated samples of dyed worsted for bunting. Samples are glued to apertures, some attached with tape. Worsted w...
lectures before Royal Society of Arts
Pesel, Louisa F (1947)
1807-1947
Manuscript notes including detail of Lecture on Antiquity of Embroidery at an exhibition of West Riding Needlecraft Association at Bradford School of Art.
Design for rugs
1925-1947
Envelope printed with "Design for rugs" and addressed to Louisa Pesel at Church Farm, from William Drago[?], containing 6 printed squared designs, printed by Kimble & Bradford, Lond
Rough catalogue of stitches, including cross references, countries etc. [notebook]
Pesel, Louisa F (1947)
1890-1920
A black hardback notebook with lined and squared paper, with the address Oak House, Bradford. The back of book contains pencil manuscript in columns detailing stitch types and published references, a...
notes and samples book
Pesel, Louisa F (1947)
before 1920
A blue binder with cord ties, and addressed Oak House, Bradford, containing numbered pages of manuscript notes, black and white photographs and attached embroidery samples. In Ink, red pencil and silk...
embroidered panel
before 1920
Panel of hedebo embroidery. Probably linen, drawn thread work depicting stylised plants, deer and birds. Labelled '5 Danish samples', 'Pesel Oak House Bradford' and 'Hedebo'.
sampler
Pesel, Louisa F (1947)
1918-1925
An openwork embroidery sample, or model, with a label attached. Four colours of thread are used in the design on a linen weave base, with part of a zig-zag border completed. This piece is similar ...
soldier's sampler
after 1914
Length of natural coloured linen weave with a drawn thread or open work border design worked in pink and green threads to form a repeating 'V' shaped design. Chain and buttonholes stitches are worked...
![Primuline Colours [dyeing samples]](https://digital.library.leeds.ac.uk/30657/1.hashomepageThumbnailVersion/669221_001.JPG)
Primuline Colours [dyeing samples]
Green, Professor Arthur George - University of Leeds (1864-1941)
1887
This book functions as a box that contains twelve samples of dyed cotton cloth with primuline coulours. On the front cover, a handwritten text was added underneath the title (also written by hand): 'T...
silk fibre display box
Lister and Co.
20th Century
A black box with 16 compartments containing labelled samples of silk at different stages of processing. The 14 samples demonstrate silk from cocoon and raw fibres to dyed and spun yarn. The samples of...
Egypt Coptic Notes [correspondence and lecture notes]
Pesel, Louisa F (1947); Newberry, Professor Percy E (1868-1949); Welsh, S L
early 20th Century
An orange folder containing: publication Les Manufacturers D'Etoffe en Egypte au moyen age, 1904.; manuscript notes; order for Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) photographs; 3 photographs; letter to Pe...
Design Book
Bradford Municipal Technical College
1903-1904
Hardback with maroon covers. Contains lecture notes for the Worsted Coating course. Includes handwritten notes, point paper patterns and samples of yarn and fabric.