One Small Roll of Leather Wall Covering Border

Book of swatches mounted on paper (56 sheets)

sheer muslin (cambric)

Silk with vegetable dyes, warp and weft ikat designs; collar lining made of red crepe, robe lining made of red wool

Lilac satin ground with embroidered decoration

Velvet and damask with metallic yarns

Book of swatches mounted on paper (56 sheets)

Warps: undyed white cotton, 2 Z spun S plied. 34 warps per decimeter. Wefts: wool, Z spun; varied pairs and singles per shot. Extremely eccentric wefts, supplementary wefts for broceaded ornaments. Weft color: blue (heavily abrashed), red (heavily abrashed), green (probably indigo sulfonic, heavily abrashed), yellow, undyed white, light purply brown, corrosive brown, genuine purple/aubergine. Both selvedges: return wefting. Top and bottom: between 8 and 11 warps in a knotted fringe.

Satin damask with velvet

Compound-weave silk with patterning in supplementary wefts; selected motifs embroidered with gold and polychrome silk threads