Textile fabrics

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Henry John Elwes, 09 November [1913]

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/19/54

Scope and Contents

Elwes asks for Ewart's opinion on the Iceland skins and for him to return them. He has just received some new cloth and enquires whether Mrs Ewart or any of their friends would like some before he hands it over to the tailor to sell. Wallace has written that he has a fine ram from Russia which he is sending to a farm for the Scottish Board of Agriculture.

The year is not written on the letter.

Dates: 09 November [1913]

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of James Cossar Ewart / Correspondence / Correspondence 1913

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Henry John Elwes, 23 November 1921

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/27/8

Scope and Contents

Elwes writes that the Zoological Society no longer wishes to keep his three-year old Soay ram, and he wonders whether the Edinburgh Zoological Society might like him. He asks whether Ewart knows of anyone who will make him cloth made from Moorit wool.

Dates: 23 November 1921

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of James Cossar Ewart / Correspondence / Correspondence 1921

Lingiad British Team dress and bloomers, 1949

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Identifier: EUA GD55/2/23/3

Dates: 1949

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Records of the Dunfermline College of Physical Education Old Students' Association / Individual student donations / Martin, Lesley

Lingiad British Team dress and bloomers, 1949

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Identifier: EUA GD55/2/23/4

Dates: 1949

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Records of the Dunfermline College of Physical Education Old Students' Association / Individual student donations / Martin, Lesley

Report of textiles from Çatal Hüyük, 1965

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Identifier: Coll-1362/1/203

Scope and Contents

Located in A.B.R.O. Reprints 1965 - 1966. Volume 4 of 19.

Dates: 1965

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Roslin Institute Offprint Collection / Animal Breeding Research Organisation (ABRO)

Some foreign wool textiles excavated in New Zealand, April 1972

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Identifier: Coll-1362/1/410

Scope and Contents

Located in A.B.R.O. Reprints 1971 - 1972. Volume 7 of 19.

Dates: April 1972

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Roslin Institute Offprint Collection / Animal Breeding Research Organisation (ABRO)

Textile colour catalogue from Laboratorio de Tintoreria / Esteban Gay, c 1930

Item — Box CLX-A-353

Identifier: Coll-1848/17-0175

Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: c 1930

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Smaller acquisitions collection