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Textile Design

c.1909-1914 (made)
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Place of origin

One of 115 designs for Lyons silk, some on tracing paper, bound in a pattern-book of designs. 12 of the designs are from a separate group, and 2 pieces of silk gauze are inserted. The album consists of 156 pages bound in buckram.

Object details

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Object type
Materials and techniques
Pen and ink, water-colour and gouache, with some pencil and colour stencil on tracing paper, mounted and bound
Brief description
1 of 115 designs for Lyons silks contained in a buckram bound album made by Clément Kons, Vernier and Schnitzler, Paris, c.1909-14.
Physical description
One of 115 designs for Lyons silk, some on tracing paper, bound in a pattern-book of designs. 12 of the designs are from a separate group, and 2 pieces of silk gauze are inserted. The album consists of 156 pages bound in buckram.
Dimensions
  • Size of volume height: 45.7cm
  • Size of volume width: 38.1cm
Dimensions taken from Victoria & Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1963. London: HMSO, 1964.
Marks and inscriptions
  • (Most inscribed in red crayon with a reference letter of the alphabet)
  • '27.IV.1909' (Dated on the fly-leaf)
  • '19.v.1914.' (Dated on p.100)
Credit line
Given by the British Nylon Spinners Ltd.
Bibliographic reference
Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1963 . London: HMSO, 1964.
Collection
Accession number
E.1238:34-1963

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
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