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Swedish Wedding Costume
March 1965
Traditional wedding costume from Leksand (Sweden), from the exhibition of peasant costumes at the Nordiska Museet in Stockholm . The costume consists of a red bodice with white blouse, and a blue skir...
Chainmakers' Forge: Making a Link
Langhorne, Richard
1973
Side view of a Tommy (forge hammer) and anvil at Noah Bloomer & Sons chainmakers, Cradley Heath, Sandwell (West Midlands). A red-hot bar of iron sits on the anvil ready for bending into a link. The fi...
Decorated Egg
[1960s]
A hard-boiled, decorated egg, coloured with a food-based(?) red/pink dye. The shell is patterned with stencils made from small fern leaves and wild flowers.
Sound Recordings, Kent
Ross-Glass, Ruth M
c.1975-1980
Recordings of children made at four Kent schools, and adults attending Further Education institutions and a Young Wives' Group. In each case, the informants discuss ten fairy tales, selected by the co...
Chainmakers' Forge: Making a Link
Langhorne, Richard
1973
Chainmaker making a link at Noah Bloomer & Sons chainmakers, Cradley Heath, Sandwell (West Midlands). The chainmaker is bending a red-hot iron bar with benders (tongs) around the hook at the end of th...
Swedish Woven Textile
March 1965
Finished woven article with reindeer, bird, and snowflake motifs, woven in blue, red, white, and yellow, from Skåne (Sweden). This example of weaving in rölakan was included in an exhibition of Peas...
Tapestry (Norway)
January 1965
Tapestry in wool from Trondelag(?) (Norway). The tapestry is heavily patterned with a geometric tree motif, woven in red, blue, black, and white. A note in the Slide Index states that the tapestry dat...
Blacksmith Making a Horseshoe
Brunk Wille
September 1967
Informant Eric Snaith making a horseshoe, in his blacksmith's shop, Brick Yard House, Danby (North Yorkshire). The horseshoe is being shaped from a length of metal, which is still red hot from the fur...
Cart Backboard
Witton, Lesley A
1971
Harry Taylor in his workshop in Leeds, with the backboard of a rag-and-bone cart painted by him, with the name of Peter Cannon of Mirfield. The cart is richly painted in gold and dark red. The decorat...
Miniature Cart
Witton, Lesley A
1971
View of an elaborately decorated miniature rag-and-bone cart, with the name of J. Sandham Jr. The cart was built as a showpiece (?by Harry Taylor of Leeds), and is richly painted in gold and dark red....
Tapestry (Norway)
January 1965
Tapestry made up of two piece, patterned with geometric designs in stripes, in red, yellow, black, and white, from Nordland (Norway). The patterns and colours used are of the orthodox old Norwegian ty...
Tapestry (Norway): Detail
January 1965
Close-up detail of a late Renaissance tapestry from Østerdalen ( Østdal?) (Norway) showing the method of depicting life-like figures, and of joining the colours in the pattern. The slide shows a mal...