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A Chinese ShawlThis oil painting portrays a woman, seated, wearing a Chinese shawl with her hands folded. A patterned fabric makes up the background. Date: circa 1923
The BuffetA portrait oil painting showing a woman, wearing a floral patterned, yellow and blue dress, with a red plumed, black hat. She is standing, calmy infront of a table
Mrs John H. ConnellThis portrait painting shows Mrs John H. Connell, seated from a side on angle, wearing a grey, patterned gown, holding a fan. Date: circa 1918
An InteriorAn oil painting showing an elaborate room, furnished with long, draping curtains, a grand piano, and a floral patterned sofa, upon which a woman sits, wearing a white dress. Date: circa 1922
Summer fashion ideas for women: a plage suit with a lozenge-patterned jerkin, and two swimsuits. Date: 1954
Cotton summer fashions for women. Date: 1954
Summer fashions for women: a canoe-necked poplin dress from Bijou, and a halter-necked Paisley dress in marcella pique from Rembrandt. Date: 1954
An array of decorative glassware. Date: 1954
Medieval dancing couple. Man in red cloak with daggerLady is in a Dutch style skull cap and long patterned dress with a white fitted blouse. Date: 1900
Bond Worth and Axminster carpets: window displayBond Worth and Axminster carpets window display: Liverpool department store, Owen Owen, shop window display for patterned carpets. Date: circa 1963
Axminster carpet: window displayAxminster carpet window display: Liverpool department store, Owen Owen, shop window display for patterned carpets. Date: circa 1962
Marie Rambert (1888-1982) – ballet dancer & founder of the Rambert Dance Company. The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography describes Polish-born Rambert as “cultivated, dynamic, alert, witty
FASHION & FLOWER BOOKGrey patterned robe with long tight sleeves; a matching pelerine-mantelet with the lappets tied behind to form a bustle. A crucifix on a black ribbon is also worn. circa 1840
Original Artwork - Thanks for the present - postcard designOriginal Artwork - Design for a childrens postcard - Thanks for the Present. A little girl holds the doll she has just taken out of a patterned gift box. Date: circa 1937
Original Artwork - Thank you card - Teddy bear and gift boxOriginal Artwork - Design for a Thank you Card - Teddy bear opens a pretty patterned gift box to find just what I need. Date: circa 1937
Early Anglo-Saxon Gold Buckle and Pairs of Clasps with bronze vessel found in a grave mound - Taplow, Buckinghamshire - 6th to early 7th century - now in the British Museum. Date: 1920s
Patterned endpaper from a childrens book from the 1920s. Date: 1920s
Mother and daughters by the gate of a lovely bungalowA Mother and her three older daughters by the gate of a lovely period bungalow with a superb sunburst design on the gable end above a patterned-leaded window. Date: circa 1930s
Smartly-dressed young man - patterned backdropSmartly-dressed young man standing in front of a patterned backdrop. Date: 1953
Smartly-dressed young lady in front of a patterned backdropSmartly-dressed young lady standing in front of a patterned backdrop. Date: 1953
Beach pyjamas from Robinson and CleaverA sunsuit in printed Irish linen featuring a bold cretonne design, comprised of trousers, coat and a matching parasol. Available from Robinson
Beach and garden suits from Liberty, 1931On the left, a pyjama suit of Japanese silk enriched with stencilling and on the right, a three-piece outfit also in Japanese silk. Date: 1931
MMe, Drake-Exner wearing in a dress of her own designMadame Drake-Exner, formerly Evelyn Boyriven, Parisian socialite, pictured wearing a simple patterned day dress of her own design, with a severe felt hat and snake belt. Date: 1929
Advertisement for Southern Railway - South for SunbathingAdvertisement for Southern Railway - For Perfect Holidays - The Riviera! South for Sunbathing. Date: 1931
Phyllis Barron and her hand-block printing on stuffsPhyllis Barron seen cutting her own hand blocks for printing fabrics. After leaving the Slade School, she began designing patterns for cretonne printers
Three middle-aged ladies out for a drive in the countryside Date: circa 1930s
Etruscan vase, British Museum, LondonEtruscan vase on display at the British Museum, London. Date: BCE
Printing blocks used at floor cloth factory, SW LondonSix printing blocks used to create one pattern at the Smith and Baber floor cloth factory, Knightsbridge, SW London. Date: 1842
Printing block used at floor cloth factory, SW LondonOriginal printing block used at the Smith and Baber floor cloth factory, Knightsbridge, SW London. Date: 1842
View inside a floor cloth factory, Knightsbridge, SW LondonView inside the Smith and Baber floor cloth factory, Knightsbridge, SW London, showing the drying room. Date: 1842
Reception Room, Masonic Cathedral, Bloomsburg, PA, USAReception Room, Masonic Cathedral, Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania, USA. Date: 1908
Egyptian woman with large cat. Date: circa 1930
Church of St Mark in Zagreb, CroatiaChurch of St Mark in St Marks Square, Zagreb, Croatia. Date: circa 1930
Suzanne Lenglen at BiarritzSuzanne Lenglen (1899-1938) who had just won the The Ladies Tennis Championship at Wimbledon for the fifth time in succession that year, pictured at ease at Biarritz in her latest jumper. 1923
The Tutankhamen Touch - fashion inspired by Ancient EgyptPage from The Sketch reporting on patterned outfits inspired by Tutankhamen, whose tomb was discovered the previous year. Date: 1923
Woman lying on a rock at the seaside. Date: circa early 1920s
Pyjama suits at the Venice Lido, 1926Mrs. Forster, Mr George Thomas and Mrs. Emery at the Venice Lido, all wearing very fetching and rather flamboyant pyjamas suits, the de rigeur wear for the Lido. Date: 1926
Lido fashions for sunning and swimmingBeach ensembles for the fashionable Venice Lido. On the left is a pyjama suit of stockinette in blue and white with a coat in a modern design
Graphic Christmas Number front cover 1920Front cover of The Graphic Christmas Number for 1920 featuring a woman in stylised medieval dress carrying a small Christmas tree. Date: 1920
Young woman from Oesel Island (Saaremaa), EstoniaYoung woman from Oesel Island (Saaremaa, Osel), Republic of Estonia, dressed in her bridal costume, including an elaborate headdress. Date: 1922
Wooden statues of handmaidens, Thebes, EgyptWooden statues of handmaidens with baskets on their heads, discovered near Thebes during excavations, Egypt. Their purpose was to minister to the needs of the dead inside a pyramid. Date: 1922
King Basu Fondong, Cameroon, Central AfricaKing Basu Fondong (Fondom) of Cameroon, Central Africa, seated on his throne. Date: 1922
Swahili women dressing each others hair, East AfricaSwahili women of East Africa (then part of the British Empire), dressing each others hair. Date: 1922
Swahili women and children, East AfricaTwo young Swahili women and children of East Africa (then part of the British Empire). Date: 1922
Swahili woman, Zanzibar peninsula, Tanzania, East AfricaYoung Swahili woman of the Zanzibar peninsula, Tanzania (then part of the British Empire), East Africa. A convert from Islam to Christianity. Date: 1922
Woman of Zanzibar, Tanzania, East AfricaWoman of Zanzibar in traditional costume and mask (barakoa), Tanzania (then part of the British Empire), East Africa. Date: 1922
Schoolmaster of Bimbuku, Gold Coast, West AfricaMuslim schoolmaster of Bimbuku, Gold Coast (then part of the British Empire), West Africa, wearing what is claimed to be Manchester cotton. 1922
Mrs Benlinck Budd and her pet lemur - French RivieraMrs Benlinck Budd and her pet ring-tailed lemur - out for a stroll - French Riviera, Cote d Azur, France. Date: 1924