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Double-faced weaving sample with a geometric design of repeating bands of chevron-like figures. Woven with cotton thread in shades of blue and purple with supplementary warps in bright orange shades forming the pattern. A label is attached to the item which reads 'Samanth Goates, 1990', however, this is a misattribution.

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.

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.

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.

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

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 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.

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.

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.

Plain weave sample woven in shades of brown forming a design of puckered vertical bands and supplementary discontinuous wefts made of fabric ribbons in different colours. With loose supplementary warps and wefts in a variety of colours on the reverse.

Double-faced woven sample in fine red, white, and blue and yellow bouclé yarn forming a pattern of stripes. It has a related label with the text: "Exhibition at the 1st European Special Congress on Textile Training and Textile Culture in Europe 1990, City Hall Kehl on the Rhine and the Centre of Culture Strasbourg, Nendorf 1-4th October 1990."

Two faced sample with ribbons of scrap fabric (including striped printed material) in shades of grey, cream, biege, purple and green gold. Reverse with orange warp threads and gold and purple weft.

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.

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

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.

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.

Loosely woven fabric with organza ribbons in shades of blue, purple, light green and rose pink. Four distinct bands within the design, sections edged with tightly woven cream warp threads, similar to selvedge.

Finished textile samples mounted to board reading 'curtain design'. On the reverse a RSA Design Bursaries competition label identifies this as entry no. 969, 1980, for furnishing fabrics.

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

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.

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.

Three pieces of woven and printed textile in earth colours and green on a cream background.,

Small watercolour in ochre, brick red and green.

Plain weave sample woven with coarse woollen yarn in shades of grey, orange, and purple. Supplementary wefts of loosely spun thick woollen yarn in shades of purple, orange and cream is used to create a pattern of raised diagonal blocks.

Woven in beige cotton thread, with supplementary wefts consisting of multi-coloured ribbons and carded wool (as padding).

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Woven in blue, green, purple and black with multi-coloured supplementary 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 smooth woven fabric in shades of orange, green and claret. Shaded green warp threads, varying weave pattern to create banded geometric design.

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.

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

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

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.

Sample woven in cotton thread witih a puckered effect. Geometric pattern in a gradation of fading orange and purple on a beige background.

Double-faced, tightly woven woollen sample with checkered design of criss-crossed vertical and horizontal bands in different shades of red, orange, yellow, pink, green, blue and purple.

Open weave with diamond pattern in light blue lurex yarn.

Double-faced evenly woven fabric in bands of geometric design in ochre, red, marron, blue and green. Distinctive arrowhead band repeats every few rows in different colourways.

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.

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.

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.

Double-faced woollen fabric woven in a geometric design in shades of blue, lilac, pink and grey.