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Longford accounts book 1829-1831. This page lists payments from the East India Company for cloth. These were of £1306 11s 3d and £1118 11s 11d on 1 December 1834.

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Chain mail and metal plates over silk brocade, with red napped cloth used to line the handguards.The gourd-shaped plates, fukube, sometimes have compartments for storing medicines. The East India Company had a station, or factory, in Japan

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Back-strap loom-woven shoulder bag made by the Lisu people of the Golden Triangle, the border region between Laos, Thailand and Burma (Myanmar). Decorative strands of yarn at the seams and strips of red cloth at the lower corners are typically Lisu. The red cloth strips in this instance are of fulled, napped and shorn wool cloth. 20th century.

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Made entirely from scraps of European-American traded goods, this bag is testament to the the scarcity of traditional materials in the Plains region in the late 19th century. By that time the buffalo had been decimated

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Part of the uniform worn by John Quicke VIII when he was High Sheriff of Devon in 1833. Beaver felt hats date back to the 14th century, and were mostly made in Holland and Spain. In the early to mid 1600s, beaver stocks were exhausted.

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This costume belonged to Crowfoot, principal chief of the Blackfoot from1865 to his death in1890. They are of buckskin with yellow staining and painted brown stripes, trimmed with glass beads, quill-wrapped hair, red trade-cloth, fur tassels, feathers and brass bells. Acquired by Cecil Denny, Plains Indian Agent in 1882-3.

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Sample of Stroud scarlet cloth made at Bourne Mill, Brinscombe, by John Webb and dyed at Dark Mill, probably in the mid-19th century. The holes in the cloth are from tenter hooks.

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Small sample of fine black cloth woven at Cam Mills at the time of William Cam, grandfather of Norah Cam who sent the sample to Hunt and Winterbotham in 1960. This example shows how fine a cloth could be produced with new machinery.

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Sample of cochineal dyed wool cloth and papers from Ham Mills, 1777. The note states: ‘405 " 31 yds Casim [cassimere] For Good Full Scarlett Oct 3 – 77 Grain [cochineal] sent 2lb 12oz By Tho[mas] Niblett"’

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Cloth handling samples from Milliken, Lodgemore Mill, Stroud. These are samples similar to the billiard table cloths the company produces today.

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Wool sorter’s club, late 1800s, recorded to have been used to loosen fleeces at Cam Mills, Stroud. Before wool could be made into cloth it had to be graded into different qualities by touch and sight. Wool fibres were sorted according to length, fineness, elasticity and strength.

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An extremely rare example of a strap dress. This dress is interesting in that it incorporates Plains-style beadwork techniques and motifs (lazy-stitch horizontal stripes and circular medallions) in a Great Lakes style of dress. It would hav

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Ham Hills dye record book dating from about 1780. Includes reference to "list double & single wool".

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Marling Dye Book 1794-1801 with samples and recipes for a variety of colours for different clients.

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Hand carder. Teasels set into a wooden handle were used to card the wool before spinning. They were also used to raise the nap of the woven cloth after fulling.

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Mi’kmaq / Maliseet ceremonial cape. The hood may represent dogs’ heads, or it may be an elaborate variant of the eared hood worn by hunters as disguise. It may signify a sharing of power from the animals hunted. It shows that wool cloth in

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Mi’kmaq / Maliseet ceremonial cape. The hood may represent dogs’ heads, or it may be an elaborate variant of the eared hood worn by hunters as disguise. It may signify a sharing of power from the animals hunted. It shows that wool cloth in

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Mi’kmaq / Maliseet ceremonial cape. The hood may represent dogs’ heads, or it may be an elaborate variant of the eared hood worn by hunters as disguise. It may signify a sharing of power from the animals hunted. It shows that wool cloth in

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Quart jug made of ebonite, used in Charles Hooper & Sons dye house, Bonds Mill, Stonehouse, Stroud, prior to 1890.

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Length of scarlet tradecloth with a beadwork design of horse tracks. This cloth makes use of both woven blue selvedge stripes and 'saved lists' (see Glossary) as a decorative feature. Collected in the late 19th century.

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Shuttle for a power loom, with a long spindle inserted.

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Sinew-stitched hide moccasins. The dyed quill embroidery style is characteristic of the Lakota, with influence from the Metis. The red tradecloth is cut with a crenellated edge. Because the cloth is fulled, making it more compact and solid

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Athapaskan-style hide moccasins collected on the Northwest Coast of North America in 1868 or1869. Fine dark blue tradecloth forms the ground to the beadwork designs.

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Athapaskan-style hide moccasins, probably of Cree origin, from the Winnipeg area.

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The stepped beadwork design, signifying mountains, is a motif often used by the Blackfoot. The canvas cuffs are faced with fine red tradecloth suggesting a late 19th century date, as European-American cloth was used in place of animal hide

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Model of a British soldier being carried in a palanquin (a litter or sedan chair). Red cotton cloth has been used to represent the red wool blanket and scarlet uniform of the soldier. Red was associated with warriors in India and red coats

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Model of a British soldier being carried in a palanquin (a litter or sedan chair). Red cotton cloth has been used to represent the red wool blanket and scarlet uniform of the soldier. Red was associated with warriors in India and red coats

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Charles Playne, a local textile manufacturer, made this model to show the traditional method of fulling. Water-powered fulling stocks were used to shrink and thicken woven woollen cloth. Cloth was soaped, folded and placed in the trough with water, then repeatedly pounded by hammers, causing the woollen fibres to shrink and become more compact. During this process the cloth was regularly taken out, inspected and measured to ensure even shrinkage. The Playne family owned Longfords Mill.

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The red yarn decoration around the edge of these snowshoes was made by inserting a piece of cloth under the animal hide binding, and unravelling the ends.

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Wallbridge painting. Oil on canvas. Mid to late 1780s, artist not known. This painting reveals a busy rural scene. In the foreground a man is towing a wide canal boat called a trow. Its mast has been lowered ready to pass under the bridge. Beyond the bridge, cargo has been offloaded at the upper wharf. Another boat continues up the canal in the distance [image 1.jpg]. Lengths of cloth are drying in the fields, on tenter- racks [image 2.jpg and 3.jpg]. In 1783, work began on the Thames and Severn Canal to link the Stroud Canal with the Thames at Lechlade. In 1785, the canal was cut through the garden of John Cole, a prosperous shear grinder, and the garden, with its summerhouse, was separated from the main house. Cole linked them to the house again by a white, wooden footbridge in the Chinese style, cantilevered out from the stone bridge [image 1 jpg].

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Watercolour and chalk illustration, A Chalford Mill, by E.Smith

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Tahltan. Leggings of red ‘Stroud’ cloth bordered with black and decorated with beads. The black cloth is of a coarser weave than the red wool and does not have a raised nap. European-American produced printed cotton cloth lines the cuffs.

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Made by Akha people. Pair of ornate leggings, probably dating to the early 20th century, made from indigo-dyed homespun cloth. The applique decoration includes very fine scarlet wool cloth. The Akha originated in the southern Chinese province of Yunnan, over several centuries migrating southward, to Burma, Thailand, Laos and Vietnam.

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These wood pattens were used in cloth-making at Wallbridge Mill, Stroud.

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Pouch of a style made by the Lakota. It dates to the late 19th century and is made of beaded deerskin with a backing of fine green broadcloth, similar to billiard cloth.

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This size and type of pouch was often termed a ‘watch-pocket’. It is constructed largely of European-American made materials. Late 19th century.

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Handles of quirts were often made of elk horn. This handle is decorated with a row of iron screws along its length. A small piece of red tradecloth is bound onto the hide strips of the whip with sinew.

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Lead seal. "Miss Drake of the Athenaeum said this was a token fixed to a bale of wool as guarantee in trading" (note on the old packaging of the seal).

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Sheet metal order despatch stencil in the shape of a cross-quadranted heart. Similar to the East India Company stencil in the 18th century.

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Tennis ball as used in Wimbledon 2000. The felted fabric was produced by Milliken, Lodgemore Mill, Stroud.

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Commemorative jacket of the Scots Guards made of ‘Stroud Scarlet’ with a quilted and padded lining. Dated 1976 inside the neckband, this uniform jacket was purchased for the Museum in the Park collection from a market stall in London.

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Commemorative jacket of the Scots Guards made of ‘Stroud Scarlet’ with a quilted and padded lining. Dated 1976 inside the neckband, this uniform jacket was purchased for the Museum in the Park collection from a market stall in London.