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Textile Sample Card

1896 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Shade dye card for ladies dress goods. Folding shade card showing five sheets of woven patterned and plain dress fabrics. The samples are numbered from 1 to 80. Patterned fabrics (1 to 70) show two colour designs in silk stripes on a woollen crepe ground. Numbers 71 to 80 are plain silk fabrics in dark shades of brown, mauve, green, red, olive, navy, purple, turquoise and pink. Each page is entitled 'Farbenfabriken vorm. FRIEDR. BAYER & CO. ELBERFELD', and inside the front folding cover has been stamped 'Sole Representatives for Great Britain and Ireland. The Elberfeld Farbenfabriken Company Limited. / 20 Booth Street, Mosley Street, Manchester / 48 Vicar Lane, Bradford / 42 Bothwell Street, Glasgow / 19 St Dunstan's Hill, London'. The outside cover is of grey coloured cardboard and is titled 'Farbenfabriken vorm. Friedr. Bayer & Co, Elberfeld. Ladies Dress Goods, Dyed in two colors'.


Object details

Category
Object type
Materials and techniques
Card and woven silks on a woollen crepe ground
Brief description
Shade dye card for ladies dress goods, made by Friedrich Bayer & Co., Germany, 1896
Physical description
Shade dye card for ladies dress goods. Folding shade card showing five sheets of woven patterned and plain dress fabrics. The samples are numbered from 1 to 80. Patterned fabrics (1 to 70) show two colour designs in silk stripes on a woollen crepe ground. Numbers 71 to 80 are plain silk fabrics in dark shades of brown, mauve, green, red, olive, navy, purple, turquoise and pink. Each page is entitled 'Farbenfabriken vorm. FRIEDR. BAYER & CO. ELBERFELD', and inside the front folding cover has been stamped 'Sole Representatives for Great Britain and Ireland. The Elberfeld Farbenfabriken Company Limited. / 20 Booth Street, Mosley Street, Manchester / 48 Vicar Lane, Bradford / 42 Bothwell Street, Glasgow / 19 St Dunstan's Hill, London'. The outside cover is of grey coloured cardboard and is titled 'Farbenfabriken vorm. Friedr. Bayer & Co, Elberfeld. Ladies Dress Goods, Dyed in two colors'.
Dimensions
  • Folded length: 11.5in
  • Folded width: 6.25in
  • Folded length: 29.2cm
  • Folded width: 16cm
  • Weight: 0.52kg
Marks and inscriptions
  • 'Farbenfabriken vorm. FRIEDR. BAYER & CO. ELBERFELD' (Title on each page)
  • 'Sole Representatives for Great Britain and Ireland. The Elberfeld Farbenfabriken Company Limited. / 20 Booth Street, Mosley Street, Manchester / 48 Vicar Lane, Bradford / 42 Bothwell Street, Glasgow / 19 St Dunstan's Hill, London' (Stamped inside the front folding cover)
  • 'Farbenfabriken vorm. Friedr. Bayer & Co, Elberfeld. Ladies Dress Goods, Dyed in two colors' (On the outside cover)
  • A lion leaning over a globe of the world (Trademark embossed in black on the outside cover)
Credit line
Given by Dr Stanley Chapman
Object history
Registered File number 1985/845.
Part of the Thomas Wardle's collection of dye books until recently in the possession of his family and George Murfet (information from Christine Woods).
Collection
Accession number
T.171-1985

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Record createdJune 24, 2009
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