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Brightly coloured evenly woven fabric of blue and light purple warp and lime green, red, yellow and deep purple weft. Geometric design of stripes created by different colours and weave types.

Single-faced tightly woven cotton fabric, predominantly cream, with warp central band and selvedges in dark blue. Zig-zag, audio graph style pattern of coloured bands and barcode style blocks of coloured plain weaving contrast with the cream background.

Sample woven in basketweave with fine white thread. Supplementary weft cords made of pink or blue yarn, white fabric ribbons and metallic-like threads form a pattern of stripes.

Open weave cream fabric in different gauges of yarn including chenille. Loose basket weave to form an open grid design in two sections, one section with heavier bands of weft threads.

Tightly woven pile weave sample in fine cream-coloured yarn. The warps have been dyed or printed before weaving with bands of diagonal lines in pink, blue, yellow, green, purple and red. The cut pile ends form a lattice pattern.

Double-faced weaving sample in plain weave and bastketweave with geometric design in bands. Woven in shades of green, orange, red and blue wool yarn.

Double-faced twill weave sample forming a pattern of vertical stripes. Woven with different types of yarn, threads and ribbons in orange, pink, yellow, light blue, brown, red, white, as well as supplementary wefts made of satin weave blue fabric ribbons.

Double-faced smooth woven fabric in shades of orange, green and claret. Shaded green warp threads, varying weave pattern to create banded geometric design.

Two faced woollen fabric in cream and light brown shades with bands of geometric pattern created by different weave types and subtle gradations in colour between bands.

Double-faced, tightly woven sample with grid-like design of coloured squares arranged in bands on a black background. Woven in plain weave with yarn in shades of pink, purple, orange, blue, brown and black. This sample was entered by Alison Blair as her entry for the RSA's Industrial Design Bursaries Competition in Furnishing Textiles.

Single-faced neatly woven fabric in shades of light gold, sand, grey and teal. Occasional mercerised light gold warp yarns give the fabric a slight lustre and twisted two colour yarn also introduced to contribute to pattern.

Sample woven with cotton threads and long-haired mohair-like yarn in shades of yellow and green that form a design of bands. On the face side some of the long-haired yellow yarn has been pulled to create a pattern of serrated diagonals.

Double-faced fabric woven in four sections, with cream warp threads and stripes of beige, light brown, grey, blue, and pink yarns used in sections of the weft, creating a patchwork effect of striped and plain coloured blocks.

Woollen woven sample in shades of cream, grey and black of possibly undyed yarn. Combinations of plain weave and twill weave form different bands of geometric design.

Cream and blue woven fabric with small coloured squares of material caught in pockets beween the two faces. Pockets separated by a blue grid pattern of twill and plain weave.

Sample woven in cream-coloured cotton thread with a pattern of puckered vertical bands.

Woollen weaving sample woven using yarn of different thickness in shades of cream, brown and grey into a pattern of criss-crossed bands.

Black and rainbow coloured woven fabric with single strands of coloured thread, in bands of six, forming a lattice with closely woven sections behind. Thick black stripes running on the warp make a regular repeat.

Tightly woven fabric with warp threads in shades of blue and green, with weft in browns, rust and old gold in a geometric design with bands of different weaving patterns.

Double-face fabric in cream, grey, pale lemon and shades of pink woven in geometric design. Warp cream cotton thread, weft includes finer, mercerised threads and varying weave pattern.

Double-faced sample woven in cream yarn, sparkling metallic-effect thread, and pink, yellow, green and white cotton thread with a pattern creating a diagonal effect.

Two-faced woollen sample woven with cream yarn and white bouclé yarn, with supplementary wefts of loosely spun cream yarn in the reverse to create a corded effect.

Open weave sample made with purple cotton thread and light blue yarn (as warp); beige and pink leather ribbons, strings of metallic beads and pink cotton thread (as weft); and supplementary interwoven feathers.

Two-faced woven sample with a grid-like design in blue and white cotton thread with supplementary wefts made of multi-coloured fabric scraps.

Double-faced woven fabric with puckered cream folds including loose looped threads on a dark grey / brown and cream mix background.

Two faced woven fabric in brown wool with running stich pattern in gold, orange and grey on raised cords on main face.

Blue board with six 90 mm square cards showing different colour and weave effects in shades of k with threads of peacock blue-green, with yellow and lilac threads.

Cream coloured fabric, presumed to be a cotton mix, with blue coloured grid over an irregular multi-colour spot and ribbon pattern.

Cream coloured fabric, presumed to be a cotton mix, with green coloured grid over an irregular multi-colour spot and ribbon pattern.

Double-faced twill weave sample in fine brown, dark green and dark blue wool yarn and loosely spun yarn of green-blue wool with red threads and snippets of fabric.

Tightly woven single-faced fabric in cream mercerised cotton with supplementary 2 ply coloured weft threads incorporated in blocks to form a zig zag and line, creating a geometric pattern running across the sample.

Tightly woven single faced fabric in a cream mercerised cotton with supplementary single ply coloured weft threads incorporated in blocks to form a zig zag and line, creating a geometric pattern running across the sample.

Weaving sample made with warps consisting of green cords and fine orange cotton thread, and wefts of green leather ribbons, as well as supplementary feathers and strings of silver-coloured beads. Warps and wefts are woven in sections of tightly woven or open vertical weave bands.

Weaving sample made with warps consisting of purple yarn and fine green cotton thread, and wefts of pink leather ribbons and fine orange cotton thread. Warps and wefts are woven in sections of tightly woven or open weave vertical bands.

Double-faced weaving sample in fine cotton thread. Cream-coloured warps and wefts interwoven with multicoloured wefts in red, pink, blue, green, black, and white, that form eight different sections with abstract patterns. Warps and wefts have been left long as fringe.

Blue board with six 90 mm square cards showing different colour and weave effects in shades of lilac with threads of blue, green, and yellow.

Four different coloured samples of woollen furnishing fabric designed for an RSA Bursaries competition in 1980, one mustard/brown based, one maroon, one dark blue and one green.

Plain weave sample made with cotton thread in shades of cream, peach, and dark green. The design forms a pattern of vertical stripes and bands, with the solid green bands woven with a puckered effect.

Twill weave sample woven with a combination of tightly spun and loosely spun wool. Yarn in a dark orange shade and spun with multicoloured threads and snippets of fabric.

Single-faced loosely woven fabric in shades of dark pink (warp), grey, teal and lemon, with ribbons of pale blue, pale pink and black woolen yarn incorporated. The inclusion of thicker fabric ribbons adds texture and pattern to the fabric and a light stripe effect is created using the claret pink warp threads.

Double-faced tightly woven sample made with woollen yarn in shades of cream, grey and black. The design consists of vertical bands with horizontal stripes that form different sections.

Open weave sample in plain weave and basketweave, and woven with cream-coloured yarn and bouclé yarn. With supplementary discontinuous wefts made of yarn and metallic-like thread.

Black and multi-coloured woven fabric. A lattice work of coloured threads with coloured organza ribbon behind and alternating with thin bands of closely woven black cotton.

Double-faced tightly woven fabric in shades of cream, light brown, pale pink and black twisted yarns. Pattern includes repeat cord of mercerised golden thread that adds a subtle stripe to the design.

Cream double-faced fabric woven in a grid like pattern in plain and boucle yarn.

Long woven sample worked in plain weave and basketweave with fine cotton thread. Cream-coloured warp threads woven with different multi-coloured wefts creating sections of five different abstract designs.

Cream-coloured plain weave sample woven with yarn and bouclé yarn that create a geometric pattern. The warps have been dyed or printed before weaving with different shapes (circles, squares, crosses) in yellow, light purple, light blue and pink, that form a grid-like design after weaving.

Fabric sample with pale blue plastic warp threads with bands of white cotton, and loosely woven white cotton weft. Pattern of wavy, scallop shaped bands and plain woven bands in different tensions.

Two-faced woven sample. The face consists of a twill weave made with ribbons of a plain weave purple fabric and a finer satin weave fabric in shades of pink, brown and cream. The reverse, a plain weave in light purple and yellow yarn and ribbons of blue satin weave fabric, with machine-made diagonal running stitches in red thread to keep the weaving sample together.

Two-faced woven sample. The face consists of a twill weave in loosely spun green, dark red and dark green bouclé yarn and thinner orange bouclé yarn. The reverse, a plain weave in thin light orange and light blue-green bouclé yarn.