52/1919/3
Tillet stamps were a marketing device used for Exeter’s woollen cloth exports.
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513/2006/2
Three woven strips make up this garment.
149/2007/1
Woman’s tunic-like garment woven in three webs on the backstrap loom.
149/2007/2
It is a good example of Amuzgo weaving.
602/2005
Such garments are either woven at home or acquired at the local market and adjusted for personal wear.
512/2006/1
This particular huipil was made in or around Tactic in the early 1980s.
149/2007/4
Small girl’s tunic-like garment woven in three webs on the backstrap loom.
149/2007/5
Woman’s tunic-like garment is woven in three webs on the backstrap loom.
561/1987
This printed cotton blouse was purchased in Exeter in about 1967.
185/2008/1
Hand woven on a back strap loom, young girls learn how to weave from their mothers, ready to provide clothing for their new family after marriage.
185/2008/2
185/2008/3
15/2013/1
This gauze-like cloth of fine white cotton is one of several weaving styles which has been preserved for 2000 years.
15/2013/2
Open-work gauze weave is used in a type of of material worn in the Alta Verapaz region in the north of Guatemala, especially in and around Cobán.
284/1998/10
439/2007/5
Bobbins used for making continental lace.
35/2022
Winding bobbins by hand is very time-consuming.
51/1969/1
Both of these dresses were worn by Queen Victoria.
40/1990/51
This is part of an incendiary bomb which fell on a house in Exeter on 4th May 1942.
6/2005/22/1
This bone could be the remains of the first turkey eaten in England.
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14/2011/1
This is a dress bodice rather than corset bone, which would have been slightly heavier.
14/2011/2
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39/1935/2c
Trimmed with real twigs, the flowers and leaves are probably made of silk.
166/1976
39/1935/2a
This bonnet is very small so could have been made for a child.