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Catalogue presenting 198 different mounted fabric silk samples, Kyoto, Japan

 Fonds — Folder: SC-Acc-2016-0118, Box: data_value_missing_cbcd34721d87faa21876ab0aff8dd03e, Box: data_value_missing_f34949f74c48e874d293899098ed80c3
Identifier: Coll-1762

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

Part of the University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections Repository

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