Catalogue presenting 198 different mounted fabric silk samples, Kyoto, Japan
Scope and Contents
Album/Catalogue with board covers in purple soft fabric with Japanese script which may once have been gilded. The album contains 198 mounted and different silk samples in various colours or shades.
Dates
- Creation: 1908
Biographical / Historical
The catalogue used to belong to a silk manufacturer or kimono maker based in Kyoto, which in the 1900s was the centre of the Japanese textile trade.
Extent
0.05 folder
Physical Location
CLX-A-1556
Processing Information
Catalogued by Graeme D. Eddie, 29 July 2016.
- Title
- Catalogue presenting 198 different mounted fabric silk samples, Kyoto, Japan
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
Repository Details
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