Rayon Collection

Advertisement for evening dresses by Elizabeth Henry, 1939
Two models wearing dark evening dresses inspired by the late 19th-century fashion designed by Elizabeth Henry and made with Courtaulds Rayon. Date: 1939

Advert for Courtaulds Rayons 1936
The miracle of Rayons. Rayon is what you used to call artifical silk. Its name was changed because it isn t silk and it isn t artificial. It is beautiful thread

Plate 1 from Histoire naturelle? (1789)
Plate 1 Histoire Naturelle ou Mineralogie Complete, from Histoire naturelle: ou, Exposition des morceaux, les mieux choisis pour servir? (1789) by by Swebach Desfontaines

Silk Worker in Burnley
A woman working in a silk & rayon mill, Burnley, Lancashire, Britain

Winston Churchill the Chancellor of the Exchequer at the time, portrayed as a kitten playing with a ball of wool, representing the export of artificial silk. Date: May 1925

Fashion Advertisements - Tatler and Bystander, 1945
Advertisements for (top left): Jeannette Pomeroy Beauty Products ('Pomeroy Serves Beauty') (right): Spectator (bottom left): Courtaulds - The Greatest name in Rayon'. Date: 1945

Advert for Courtaulds, makers of rayon fabric. The gown depicted is made by Liberty's. In the background is a scene from Ranelagh Gardens in the 18th century. Date: 1954

SILK & RAYON MILL / 1955 SILK & RAYON MILL / 1955
A woman working in a silk & rayon mill, Burnley, Lancashire, Britain. Date: 1950s

Aristoc WWII stockings advertisement - rayon
Advertisement for Aristoc stockings in 1944 showing a woman in WRNS uniform inspecting a pair

What People Are Wearing - Amanda Grinling
The actress Amanda Grinling wearing a dress she made herself using a finged stole in pink and purple striped wool. The top is pink rayon. Date: 1966

Rayon advert with couple, 1951
Courtaulds rayon advertisement featuring a glamorous couple after dinner. " Versatile and hard-wearing rayon is present in almost every modern scene where fabric plays its part." Date: 1951

Advertisement for an evening gown, 1939
Advertisement for a short gown made with Courtaulds Rayon. The text reads: " When you re off-duty retain the military touch with this new, short dinner gown with distinctive epaulettes

Fashion Illustration, 1966
Fashion illustration by Shuna Harwood featuring dresses by Nina Ricci, Harvey Gould, Yves St Laurent, Louis Feraud and Hildebrand. Date: 1966

Disco trouser suit, 1965
For the young individualist - a disco trouser suit in pitch black rayon Tricel - shell top with polka dots partners with sassy trumpet trews

Polly Peck advertisement
An advert for Polly Peck fashions, showing a model in a Victoriana striped dress in Rayon Surah. Date: 1961

Fredrica trouser suit, Marimekko dress, 1965 fashion
Trouser suit by Fredrica in linen-textured rayon by Manko covered in stylised flowers scattered lightly on the top, closely massed on the trousers

Rayon d or sub-variety of Laelia grandis tenebrosa orchid.. Illustration drawn by C. de Bruyne and chromolithographed by P

Yellow and crimson orchid, Laelia grandis var Tenebrosa
Yellow and crimson orchid, Laelia grandis var. Tenebrosa.. Illustration by C. de Bruyne, chromolithograph by P

Tatler front cover, May 1964
Front cover of The Tatler featuring a model posing in a flower-printed linen-textured rayon dress from the Christian Dior boutique. She wears a hat also by Dior. Date: 1964

Tenny: by Rayon d Or--dam Belle of Maywood. Date c1892

Booking theatre tickets 1953
A stylishly dressed woman books tickets for the theatre wearing a slim-fitting featherweight suit by Wetheralls made of snuff-colour pin check rayon

Rayon Ballgown
Love-in-a-mist coloured rayon gown with a long skirt, & heart (en coeur) shaped pleated corsage with narrow shoulder straps & worn with a triple belt trimmed with roses Date: 1938

1954 fashions
A contemporary suit to take one from morning until night comprising a Middy style jumper, with skirt and golfer cardigan by Wolsey

Elegant luggage 1956
Something more than sturdy usefulness in luggage is required by the elegant traveller nowaday

Stiebel / Rayon Suit
A fitted suit designed by Victor Stiebel, using rayon. Photograph released by the Rayon Federation

Victor Stiebel / Rayon
Elegant evening gown designed by Victor Stiebel in yarn-dyed rayon satin produced by Driver Bros.Keighley. Photo promoting the British Rayon & Synthetic Fibres Federation

Advert / Citiba Stockings
Citiba stockings in rayon silk

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