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textile fragments
19th Century
Two pieces of double weave in two-tone tan and cream with a symmetrical design of eagles and stylised flowers and flowers. One piece has paper residue from being glued onto a backing.
fragment
1735
Silk brocade in a pink and black striped background with a brocaded pattern of flowers and lace/ribbon, the colours of which are created by long stripes of differing colours of thread throughout the w...
fragment
early 17th Century
Two pieces of silk sewn together with running stitch, with a design in two shades of green of stylised asymmetrical flowers.
fragment
early 18th Century
Complex weave brocaded dress silk with a bizarre pattern. The yellow threads are wrapped with gold, and the white threads wrapped with silver, though much of the metal has now worn away.
fragment
mid 18th Century
Woven silk dress fabric. Tabby ground with tobine stripes, within which are small white flowers. The fabric has been brocaded with coloured silks in floral spray patterns.
fragment
late 18th Century
A piece of silk dress material. The fabric is a complex weave brocade with a a trailing lace pattern and sprigs of flowers. The sample is made up of four pieces joined together.
fragment
18th Century
Dress silk with alternating columns of white stylized flowers on a blue background and smaller white flowers on a rust coloured ground.
fragment
18th Century
Mid eighteenth century complex weave brocaded dress silk. The fabric has a trailing lace pattern in white with bunches of stylized flowers in blue and yellow. There is a small piece of selvedge with b...
fragment
18th Century
A dress weight fabric with a simple weave ground and brocaded pattern of very small sprigs alternating with larger sprays of stylized flowers. At intervals of 1cm there are three rows of white metal s...
velvet fragment
early 19th Century
Pale blue and pink figured cut velvet on a pale blue satin ground. The vine like pattern is reminiscent of early Italian velvets but the date written on the back in red crayon suggests 1800.
large fragment
19th Century
Probably a nineteenth century copy of an earlier damask pattern in two shades of brown with stylized figs and pomegranates. Two pieces.
fragment
1600-1700
A yellow silk damask: a small portion of a large foliate pattern characteristic of seventeenth century fabrics.