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Textile:
ITC 2010.852

1740-1770

Complex weave dress fabric with brocading. The design, which is weft faced comprises of stylized roses with a background of lace ribbon. The supplementary weft fibres of the pattern do not extend the ...

Textile:
ITC 2010.993

before 1700

The pattern in silver and gold on a green background consists of stylized flowers of several different kinds. The weave is plain with both warp and weft of green silk. The brocaded flower motifs c...

Textile:
ITC 2017.15

mid 20th-20th Century

A long cream weave with fringing divided into three sections showing a red butterfly, green wave type motif and a yellow iris. Thwo of the sections are woven with a gold lurex type weft, with a silve...

Textile:
ITC 2015.69

late 19th-early 20th Century

A hanging scroll depicting a rocky shoreline with boats and a building in shades of black, white and yellow. The main image is created using the y?zen-bir?do technique - a panel of velvet weaving w...

Textile:
ITC 2012.130

before 1995

Length of black and white printed textile, featuring a regular repeat pattern with two-fold rotational symmetry.

Textile:
ITC 2012.139

before 1995

Length of black and white printed textile, featuring a regular repeat pattern based on fish, with two-fold rotational symmetry.

Textile:
ITC 2013.71

mid 20th Century

A sample of Chinese horsehair. In the leather trade, horsehair brushes are used for polishing as they pick up dust well and do not scratch; they are also sold as domestic polishing brushes. Horsehai...

Textile:
ITC 132

late 18th century

This item is symmetrically assembled from two panels of silk zhicheng, a traditional weft patterned fabric in which the patterning wefts do not run the full width of the fabric but instead have been i...

Textile:
ITC 2013.19

1740

Sampler made by Mary Hollis, 1740. This is probably stitched by a child, as was originally part of a collection of school children's work. The sampler is worked in horizontal bands of alphabet, numb...

Textile:
ITC 2009.201.6

mid 20th Century

Sample of dyed fibre (mostly black, some fibres do not appear to have taken the dye and are cream or brown coloured). The sample is probably of 'Mexican fibre'. This name Mexican fibre is used for ...

Textile:
ITC 2022.288

1970-1976

This is a large picture showing a scene from the Bharata Yudha saga (known in India as Mahabharata). This scene is called 'Kresna Duta' (Kresna as Ambassador); the Prince Kresna is shown holding the r...

Textile:
ITC 2009.52

late 19th-mid 20th Century

Coarse hessian part worked with a geometric design in cross and tent stitch, worked in coloured wool threads. The original Louisa Pesel card label attached reads ' Seat model from cross stitch book. P...