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

Szerelmey Leather cloth

Three Kodak No. 2 Glazing Cloths

Sheet of cloth with Egyptian decoration, framed

Roll of 'Empire' cloth

sample of fabric made from polylactic acid

Fabric Bolt End

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

Cloth and Sponge Eyepiece for Arriflex 35mm cine camera

Fabric Bolt End

Handwoven binding cloth

Handwoven binding cloth

Morton Collection: samples of woven fabric

Cloth fragments from the British textile industry

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 from Blood Transfusion Set

Cleaning cloths for acupuncture needles, Japan

Handwoven binding cloth

Piece of lint from neurosurgical bag

Cloths from 'Esbit' travelling stove

Cloth fragments from the British textile industry

Fabric tube with zip along its length

Collection of three cardboard boxes of coloured lantern slides

Jacquard Hand Loom

Bundles of strips of red cloth

Rolls of cloth

Cloth from Livingstone medicine chest

Sachet of `Spotkleen' stain-removing cloth

Cloth from medicine chest

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

Shoe-shine cloth

Tray cloth, LMS copperplate logo

Tray cloths

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

First Aid cloth

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

Tray cloth, Great Western Railway

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

Printed cloth

Shoe-shine cloth

Shoe-shine cloth

Linen cloth, British Transport Hotels

Leather case with cloth, from doctor’s bag, English, 1925-1935