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Title:
Eight Festival Pattern Group sample fabrics, 1951
Object name(s):
textile samples; textile samples
Brief description:
Display board containing 8 fabric samples. Consisting of (pink) hydrargillite; (brown) hydrargillite; (red, blue and yellow) afwillite; (red) mica; (blue) china clay; (green, yellow and red) haemoglobin; (green) orthoclase; (brown) hydrargillite (simplified). From a collection of 83 samples designed for the 1951 Festival of Britain.
Collection:
Science Museum Group
Credit line:
Gift of Dr. Helen Dick Megaw
Dimension:
height
Dimension measurement unit:
in
Dimension value:
22 1/4
Dimension:
height
Dimension measurement unit:
mm
Dimension value:
565
Dimension:
width
Dimension measurement unit:
in
Dimension value:
31 7/8
Dimension:
width
Dimension measurement unit:
mm
Dimension value:
810
Object name:
textile samples; textile samples
Object production date:
Date - earliest / single:
1951
Date - latest:
1951
Object production date:
Date - association:
made
Date - earliest / single:
1951
Date - latest:
1951
Object production place:
United Kingdom
Other number:
1976-644/52
Other number type:
accession number
Responsible department/section:
SCM - Experimental Chemistry

Persistent shareable link for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/aec3c42a-bcfa-3491-b4a3-3ab976b81817

Use licence for this record: CC BY

Attribution for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/aec3c42a-bcfa-3491-b4a3-3ab976b81817, Science Museum Group, CC BY

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