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Swatch book : Norwich pattern book, c. 1785-1831.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Clothing and dress.
- Commerce.
- Satin.
- Textile fabrics.
- China.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- Production:
- [Place of production not identified] : [producer not identified], [approximately 1785-1831]
- Summary:
- This leather-bound book consists of approximately 500 swatches of various textile fabrics, including fine examples of 'camelots', 'sattins', 'tabourets', 'fleurets', 'callemandres', 'camelottines', 'harlequins', and 'grandines'.
- Notes:
- AMDigital Reference: Col. 50
- Collection: Swatch Book Collection, [c.1700-c.1925]
- Some facing pages contain manuscript notes in French, which provide specific names for the corresponding fabrics. A faint manuscript inscription on the front free endpaper indicates a British origin, reading 'September 8, 1831. The Coronation of his Majesty King Willm. 4th took place with that of his Consort Queen Adelaide'. Florence Montgomery, in Textiles in America, 1650-1870, identifies these swatches as Norwich worsteds and supplies a date of 1785.Please note that some of the metadata for this document has been drawn from the Winterthur Library catalogue.
- Title from publisher's website.
- Description based on publisher metadata (viewed October 30, 2024).
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