Pattern Book
1896 (made)
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Shade card pattern book of dress fabric dyes. Bound with maroon-coloured linen binding and entitled 'Farbenfabriken vorm. Friedr. Bayer & Co, Elberfeld'. The title page is printed 'Nr 707, 1898' and a typed page listing dye recipes 'Färbe-Vorschift' is glued to the inside front cover. All of the 33 sample pages in the book show one different coloured example of the same fine silk fabric which is woven with a coloured warp stripe. Each page showing a sample is printed with the name of the manufacturer.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Woven silk on bound card with linen binding and printed |
| Brief description | Shade card pattern book of dress fabric dyes, made by Friedrich Bayer & Co., Germany, 1896 |
| Physical description | Shade card pattern book of dress fabric dyes. Bound with maroon-coloured linen binding and entitled 'Farbenfabriken vorm. Friedr. Bayer & Co, Elberfeld'. The title page is printed 'Nr 707, 1898' and a typed page listing dye recipes 'Färbe-Vorschift' is glued to the inside front cover. All of the 33 sample pages in the book show one different coloured example of the same fine silk fabric which is woven with a coloured warp stripe. Each page showing a sample is printed with the name of the manufacturer. |
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| Credit line | Given by Dr Stanley Chapman |
| Object history | Registered File number 1985/845. From the library of Thomas Wardle collection of dye books and until recently in the possession of his family and George Murfet (information from Christine Woods). |
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| Accession number | T.172-1985 |
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| Record created | June 24, 2009 |
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