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Object Name: Linen proof cloth
Maker: Brown, John Shaw (Primary maker)
Date Made: 1930
1930
Description: A proof cloth for a place mat. Woven in huckaback with a central motif and border pattern in damask, of unbleached and red linen yarn. Loom width 40cm, selvedge to selvedge. Unhemmed. A large (10cmx14cm) paper label attached to one corner carries the proof cloth report, including the information that this sample was woven at the Lower Lodge works on 31st July 1930.
Materials: linen : paper
Catalogue Number: HOYFM.2012.259.24

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