Cloth | Science Museum Group Collection

Patent specifications - files containing copies of specifications plus notes, correspondence, drawings. ‘Early developments of knitted fabrics with through weft’. Samples of fabric with accompanying letters, notes, diagram etc. From James Morton and other outside firms. Also, trials from Balm Hill. F.N.F. samples of cloth mounted and labelled. No’s 1-19. (From Darvei 1924 – ) Mostly at Nottingham – Balm Hill samples 1928.

Morton Collection: samples of cloth mounted and labelled. No’s 1-19.

1928

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A piece of brown cotton cloth

Silk skirt and blouse dyed with Perkin's mauve aniline dye

Collection of "Britain's Cottons" samples

Fabric bolt end

Piece of cloth from Edward Jenner's coffin, United Kingdom, 1823

Piece of fabric from Vickers Vimy in presentational case

Three Kodak No. 2 Glazing Cloths

Szerelmey Leather cloth

Sheet of cloth with Egyptian decoration, framed

Roll of 'Empire' cloth

Fabric Bolt End

Synthetic textiles used in an experiment to find a treatment to make the fibres absorbent, Hungary, 1980s

sample of fabric made from polylactic acid

Cloth and Sponge Eyepiece for Arriflex 35mm cine camera

Cleaning cloths for acupuncture needles, Japan

Fabric Bolt End

Morton Collection: samples of woven fabric

Cloth from Blood Transfusion Set

Handwoven binding cloth

Handwoven binding cloth

Textile from Model of a 1921 Wolseley open tourer car

Cloth fragments from the British textile industry

Cloth fragments from the British textile industry

Cloth fragments from the British textile industry

Piece of lint from neurosurgical bag

Collection of three cardboard boxes of coloured lantern slides

Jacquard Hand Loom

Cloths from 'Esbit' travelling stove

Handwoven binding cloth

Cloth fragments from the British textile industry

Fabric tube with zip along its length

Bundles of strips of red cloth

Cloth from Livingstone medicine chest

Rolls of cloth

Sachet of `Spotkleen' stain-removing cloth

Shoe-shine cloth

Shoe-shine cloth

Cloth from medicine chest

Shoe-shine cloth

Morton Collection: samples of cloth mounted and labelled. No’s 40-45.

Tray cloths

Morton Collection: samples of cloth mounted and labelled. No’s 1-19.

Cloth, from doctor’s bag, English, 1925-1935

Tray cloth, LMS copperplate logo

Sachet of `Spotkleen' stain-removing cloth

Roll of cloth in tube, from doctor’s bag, English, 1925-1935

Linen cloth, British Transport Hotels

Morton Collection: 3 samples of heavily embroidered cloth

First Aid cloth

Tray cloth, Great Western Railway