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Textile:
ITC 1999.1

1888-1889

A hardback with dark brown covers and black spine, with gold text on spine. Contains printed forms with handwritten inscriptions detailing orders for looms. Listed by date with an index of companies...

Textile:
ITC 2018.60.1

19th Century

A faded symmetrical sampler in green, red (faded) and cream, with a central feature of a religious poem and the name Hannah Horsfall in a zigzag border. Other features include a central lion and unic...

Textile:
ITC 2013.10

19th Century

Sampler with embroidered cross stitch of a grand house design in red (suggestive of bricks) enclosed in a red and green cross stitch repeat border. Above the house design are grey cross stitch arcs, p...

Textile:
ITC 1999.10

1898

Hardback book with multicoloured covers and green spine. Black text and engraving on cover. Contains 17 labelled plates showing components of the Hollingworth and Knowles open shed high speed fancy ...

Textile:
ITC 1024

19th Century

An embroidered baby gown front. The patterning on this item comprises a symmetrical floral design which has been created through the use of a combination of cut work and fine Ayrshire embroidery. The...

Textile:
ITC 2013.11

19th Century

Narrow embroidered fragment or border with five repeated floral motifs in stem stitch and satin stitch infill. Running along the length of one edge is pulled work in a zigzag pattern. All sides are r...

Textile:
ITC 1999.11

1898

Hardback book with multicoloured covers and green spine. Black text and engraving on cover. Contains 17 labelled plates showing components of the Hollingworth and Knowles open shed high speed fancy ...

Textile:
ITC 2009.112

1814-1821

Six hand coloured early 19th century women's fashion plates published either by R.Ackermann's Repository of Arts (101 Strand, London) or La Belle Assemblee. All titled, dated and numbered: Walking d...

Textile:
ITC 2013.12

late 19th Century

Monochrome cross stitch sampler by Annie Plows in red silk thread. Three edges are hemmed and there is a selvedge running along the right hand side of the sampler. The sampler includes alphabet, num...

Textile:
ITC 1999.12

1898

Hardback book with multicoloured covers and engraving on cover. Contains 8 labelled plates showing components of the Hollingworth and Knowles open shed high speed fancy loom.

Textile:
ITC 2013.13

19th Century

Embroidered sampler by Lydia Wilkinson, Aged 9. The sampler is worked in horizontal bands of repeat geometric border patterns, a triple alphabet, numerals, motifs and inscriptions, enclosed in a simp...

Textile:
ITC 1999.13

1898

Hardback book with multicoloured covers and engraving on cover. Contains 17 labelled plates showing components of the Hollingworth and Knowles open shed high speed fancy loom.