Pattern Collection (page 11)

Scotch Carpet Loom, Glasgow 1843
A weaver sits at a hand-operated Scotch carpet loom at a Glasgow carpet factory. The pattern is created using Jacquard punched cards which travel across the top of the loom. Date: 1843

Press Printing, Thomas Hoyles Print Works, Manchester 1843
Press-printing a repeating pattern onto a roll of calico cloth at Thomas Hoyles Print Works, Manchester. Date: 1843

Jacquard Apparatus at Becks Lace Factory, Nottingham 1843
Jacquard punched coded card apparatus at Becks Lace Factory, Nottingham. The arrangement of the holes in successive cards determined the pattern produced in the lace-making machine to which

BREAKFAST TRAY PATTERN
Design for a breakfast-tray or mat. Date: 1868

FALL / MINI POODLE
CHAMPION WHIPPENDELL CARILLON Owned by Brunker. Black poodle with its back clipped in unusual pattern. Date: 1931

Advertisement - Pirelli Tyres
Pirelli Tyres - for racing cars Date: 1916

ARTIST USING GRID
An artist uses a grid pattern to assist him in drawing a reclining model Date: 1525

Woman crocheting 1906
Photograph of a woman entitled Wandering Thoughts crocheting at home maybe for a piece of clothing or a doily. Date: 1906

VISION / CROSS / ANGELS
The vision of the cross covered with angels: Beamd on that cross; & pattern fails me now. (Canto XIV, lines 96-97) Date: First published: 1307-21?

Cylinder Printing at Thomas Hoyles Print Works, Manchester, a repeating pattern onto a roll of calico cloth. Date: 1843

Rear view of a Japanese Actress in remarkably elaborate costume with two children Date: circa 1930

Endpapers by Molly McArthur for Mumbudget by Helen Simpson. Date: 1928

Hamsa painted hands, Nefta, Tunisia
Hamsa painted hand signs on a house door to keep out evil and afford protection, Nefta, Tunisia Date: 1987

Siena, Italy - Contrada - Selva (Wood)
Standard bearer of the Contrada of Selva (Wood), Siena, Italy. At birth you become a member of one of the 17 Contrade (Districts) and your life revolves around your Contrada

Cast iron bench in Rustic Pattern of entwined oak branches
19th century antique cast iron bench in the Rustic Pattern of entwined oak branches and leaves and with entwined snakes on the end supports. Its (likely) proud creator stands behind. Date: circa 1880s

Studio photographic portrait of a young girl wearing a check dress, her dark curly hair partly tied back. Date: circa 1900s

Fashions for the 1890s - the end result of flat patterns by Weldons Ltd. Date: circa 1895

Siena, Italy - Costume of the Contrada dell Istrice
Costumes of the Contrada of Istrice (Porcupine), Siena, Italy. At birth you become a member of one of the 17 Contrade (Districts) and your life revolves around your Contrada

Madame Delfaus school of carpet making, Algiers, Algeria
Children employed at Madame Delfaus school of carpet making at 84 Boulevard Valee, Algiers, Algeria, North Africa. Date: circa 1905

Stylised illustration depicting Fortune and Mercury
Stylised illustration depicting Fortune bearing an overflowing cornucopia and Mercury, the winged messenger god. The Vienna Secession was an art movement formed in 1897 by a group of Austrian artists

Art Deco Decorative inserts (baskets) by Otto Lange (1879 19 December 1944) was a German Expressionist painter and graphic artist. Date: circa 1920s

Art Deco Motifs - Patterns, Ornamentation and borders Date: circa 1920s

Pretty French girl in fishscale swimsuit reclining
A pretty French model in fish scale pattern swimsuit and floral silk headscarf reclining seductively on a photographic studio beach. Date: late 1910s

Happy Birthday Greetings card - Dutch - Tennis Player. Date: circa 1920s

Plate
Tin-glazed earthenware plate painted in a blue floral design with a foliate border, made in London c.1785. Date: c.1785

Plate
Tin-glazed earthenware plate painted in blue with a central floral stem and an interlocking border, made in either Bristol or London c.1740. Date: c.1740

Variety tea set
Glazed porcelain teapot and lid decorated with the Variety pattern, a transfer-printed blue design including geometric motifs, fans and bamboo

Textile swatches
A selection of seven textile samples which were found loose with in the volume and not associated with a particular page. Date: 1887-1894

Plate
One of three earthenware plates with a black and white transfer printed underglaze design in the centre and a zig-zag border around the rim, the pattern name is Pomona

Flower bowl
Tin-glazed earthenware flower or pot-pourri holder and lid, with blue and manganese painted decoration of stylised floral sprays set within quatrefoils

Maiolica plate
Tin-glazed earthenware (maiolica) plate, hand-painted with a linear geometric interlacing pattern of squares, flower heads and curved lines, made in Montelupo, Italy, c.1575-1625. Date: 1575-1625

Guilbaud Writing Cabinet, Trade Label
Walnut-veneered writing cabinet bearing the trade label of John Guilbaud, retailed in London, c.1695-1700. Date: 1693-1712

Guilbaud Writing Cabinet, detail
Walnut-veneered writing cabinet bearing the trade label of John Guilbaud, retailed in London, c.1695-1700. Date: 1693-1712

Vase
Porcelain vase and cover with Imari-style underglaze blue and red floral and foliate decoration and overglaze gilding, the cover with a finial in the shape of a Chinese figure

View of a drawing room, pencil, ink and watercolour on paper, by an unknown artist, c.1835-40, in a gilt frame. Date: 1835-40

Page from New Artistic Wall Papers
New Artistic Wall Papers, a bound wallpaper sample book produced in England by Lightbown Aspinall, dated 1894. Date: 1894

Cropped page from a wallpaper sample book
Bound wallpaper sample book, containing 419 pages of mainly surface roller printed and some hand block printed wallpaper samples, manufactured between 1885 and 1890s. Date: 1885-1890

Page from a wallpaper sample book
Bound wallpaper sample book, containing 419 pages of mainly surface roller printed and some hand block printed wallpaper samples, manufactured between 1885 and 1890s. Date: 1885-1890

Box
Straw-work box decorated with an abstract geometric design in coloured straw with a black lacquered interior, containing four straw-work boxes inside which are hand-made Happy Families cards

Page from Unique guide to artistic furnishing: The home bea
Unique guide to artistic furnishing: the home beautiful, a catalogue containing 137 pages, including colour and black and white illustrations

Pages from Furnishing Fabrics and Curtains Spring 1914

Hampden dinner plate
An earthenware dinner plate manufactured by Old Hall decorated with the Hampden design by Christopher Dresser. It has a turquoise applied transfer design and Japanese-style floral design

Wallpaper fragments
Seven fragments of wallpaper with a floral pin print pattern on a green ground, hand block-printed on laid paper. Probably made in London in c.1790

Wallpaper border fragments
Two fragments of a wallpaper border with a neo-classical ribbon and stylised flower design, and two fragments of filling paper with a floral pin print pattern on a green ground

Almsdish in brass with a central hammered design featuring two lions flanking a shield and pointed oval border decoration, probably made in Northern Europe, possibly c.1700-1800. Date: c.1700-1800

Wallpaper fragment
Two fragments of wallpaper, with a stencilled and block-printed design of ribbons and sprigs in orange, white and black on a grey ground on laid paper, probably made in London c.1780

Fragments of wallpaper border
Three fragments of wallpaper border, block printed with a pattern of swags and pater栩 n black, purple, red and shades of green on an off-white ground on laid paper, from Wandsworth House

Plate
Polychrome tin-glazed earthenware plate, with painted floral decoration possibly made as a tourist piece in Iberia in c.1800-1900. Date: c.1800-1900

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