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Textile:
ITC 2010.13

Mid 19th century

Length of plain woven linen fabric with selvedges down each long side, hemmed along the base edge and small fringe/ fraying along the top edge. The embroidered design is work in repeating outlined row...

Textile:
ITC 2010.14

Mid 19th century

Fragment of cotton fabric with an embroidered design composed to two vertical rows of stylised repeating floral motifs. The motifs are identical in each row but worked in different coloured silks. Sma...

Textile:
ITC 2010.15

late 19th Century

Napkin with cotton ground and an embroidered border along one end. The embroidered border design is composed of a stylised floral image which is repeated as a mirror design. A narrow line of embroide...

Textile:
ITC 2010.16

Mid 19th Century

Towel made of cotton with silk embroidered and drawn thread fringed ends. The towel is woven as a single width with a combination of thick and thin weft threads, resulting in a striped appearance wit...

Textile:
ITC 225

c. 1906

This item is embroidered at both ends with 25cm deep stylised carnation sprigs, symmetrically arranged on a central stem. The patterning techniques include double darning stitch, fishbone stitch and ...

Textile:
ITC 940

19th century

One end of a napkin. A motif of flowers in a vase is repeated four times along the border pattern of this fragment. A continuous narrow border of stylised tulips and leaves has been worked along the...

Textile:
ITC 942

19th century

This item is the detached border from one end of a napkin. The same border pattern would have been repeated at the other end. The main pattern consists of repeating rose buds and leaves, framed by a...

Textile:
ITC 950

19th century

This item is the detached border from one end of a napkin. The same border pattern would have been repeated at the other end. The main pattern consists of repeating rose buds and leaves, framed by a...

Textile:
ITC 973

20th century

This item is embroidered at each end with five isolated motifs of flowers in a pot. A narrow border of coloured squares is embroidered along the edges. Each floral motif is encircled with knotted fl...

Textile:
ITC 978

19th Century

These items originally formed two embroidered decorative borders of a single piece of fabric. They are embroidered with geometric flower motifs set vertically, interspersed with bands worked using me...