Brown placemat with white fringed edges. Features a geometric design and is labelled "Arabesque; a two coloured placemat in chocolate and biscuit by Sylvia Chalmers"
One of a set of two curtains designed by Sylvia Chalmers made in 'Escape I' the Sun' design which features a man in a red hammock and a woman on a swing.
Rust-dyed and heat-manipulated crepe satin. Inspired by the 2014 fire in the Mackintosh Building. Stored along with nails (NMC/1962B) and textile (NMC/1962C) in presentation box (NMC/1962A).
Ten figures in various reclining poses, printed/hand painted on textile and mounted on board. The figure outlines are printed in a dark brown/black, whilst their bodies are filled and shaded in peach and white (possibly hand-painted).
Some of this material was damaged in the fire in GSA's Mackintosh Building on 23rd May 2014. Paper conservation took place in 2018. Textile conservation was completed in 2019.
Long silk and linen woven scarf with fringed ends. It has geometric designs and subtle colour changes and blends, achieved through dip dyed warp. Scarf is in shades of green, grey, orange and brown.
Length of fabric printed with a repeat design including houses, ornate gates and trees against a background of small leaves. Black, green and grey on white.
Small blue card folder with the hand-label 'Embroidery'. It contains a handwritten explanation of the technique and materials, the pattern design for nine squares in pen and ink on graph paper, and the worked textile in blue, white, red, black and green.
Small blue card folder with the hand-written label Patchwork. It contains a handwritten explanation of the technique and materials, the pattern design with different shapes in white paper glued into the folder, and the worked textile in patterned fabric with blue, green, red, black and white.
Fabric development board with drawings, weaving grid, picture of a tapestry showing the inspiration, blue-green textile with orange, maroon and lilac spot design all mounted on card, entitled Hospitality Fabrics.
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.
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.
