Salesman's sample book, Medium: marbleized paper, cardboard, cotton, linen Technique: plain weave, twill weaves, float weaves (damask), supplementary weft pile (velveteen); 108 examples are block-printed, 461 swatches of fabric pasted on cards arranged in an accordion fold book. Manufacturer's number on each swatch. Book covered in marbleized paper. Samples are either cotton warp and cotton weft or linen warp and cotton weft, some block-printed in small scale repeating patterns., Manchester, England, 1784, sample books, Salesman's sample book

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