Designs for woven textiles
Design
ca. 1878-1885 (made)
ca. 1878-1885 (made)
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Album of designs, comprised of 295 numbered pages, originally half bound in morocco. Most pages inscribed with pencil and pen and ink with notes and weaving instructions. Most numbered with pattern numbers. Most of the designs in the album were prepared for the jacquard weaving of bed covers and other fabrics, for shipping lines and hotels. The designs often incorporate lettering and are titled or initialled after steamship companies or with hotel emblems and logos.
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Title | Designs for woven textiles (generic title) |
Materials and techniques | Drawings, many squared for transfer |
Brief description | Album of designs by Jabez Johnson Son Allsop & Co., for woven cotton textiles, comprised of 220 drawings, 3 prints, and 63 samples of mounted fabric on 295 numbered pages of wove paper. Great Britain, ca. 1878-1885. |
Physical description | Album of designs, comprised of 295 numbered pages, originally half bound in morocco. Most pages inscribed with pencil and pen and ink with notes and weaving instructions. Most numbered with pattern numbers. Most of the designs in the album were prepared for the jacquard weaving of bed covers and other fabrics, for shipping lines and hotels. The designs often incorporate lettering and are titled or initialled after steamship companies or with hotel emblems and logos. |
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Accession number | E.2156:225-1991 |
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Record created | March 4, 2009 |
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