Textiles
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
Catalogue presenting 198 different mounted fabric silk samples, Kyoto, Japan
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.
Collection of British / French textile samples and designs, on printed cotton
Collection of British and French textile samples which may be from Lancashire.
Scope and Contents
These are the remains from two albums with numerous mounted textile samples. Mainly printed cottons pasted on stiff paper with numbers and annotations in ink. Some have annotations in French and are dated 1862. Some have bookplate 'Cocksey'.
Edinburgh University Library Buckram Shade Card, undated [20th century?]
Buckram Shade Card for Edinburgh University Library, containing 18 shades.
Samples of tape dyed in different kinds of indigo, June 1789
Samples of tape dyed in different kinds of indigo, dated June 1789.
Textile colour catalogue from Laboratorio de Tintoreria / Esteban Gay, c 1930
Catalogue of original samples of threads and fabrics made in Barcelona ca 1930. It is presenting 32 different colour threads and six pieces of printed coloured fabrics. The accompanying descriptive text including chemical formulas is beautifully handwritten.