Fabric sample book of cottons exported from Britain to Bombay, India

YMS0488

1823 - 1827

Fabric sample book, treated, 226 pages. Includes details of ships, shipping marks, and company records. Samples include: floral abstract; stripes with floral abstract; Indian with flowers; stripes; geometrical; plain abstract with flowers; geometrical with flowers; geometrical - abstract flowers in regular order; abstract; stripes with floral abstract; stripes made of abstract flowers or geometrical shapes; various colours

English

Provenance unknown. Correspondence with Dr Philip Sykas of Manchester Metropolitan University suggests that the sample book was made up by Finlay, Hodgson & Co, a London based wholesaler with a warehouse in Liverpool. The fabric samples compiled in the book were destined for Ritchie, Steuart & Co of Mumbai (Bombay). It is thought that the volume became part of the Calico Printers' Association design archive, which was sold at auction in 1968.

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