Applied Art (Na257)

Hexagonal patchwork strip. Cream background with hexagonal flower design in various dress fabrics.

Applied Art (Na258)

Hexagonal patchwork strip. Cream background with hexagonal flower design in various dress fabrics.

Applied Art (Na259)

Hexagonal patchwork strip. Cream background with hexagonal flower design in various dress fabrics.

Applied Art (Na709)

Red earthenware. Circular shallow dish with shallow flange. Cream glaze. Painted decoration in green, black, yellow: central whorl, on flange four pomegranate shapes each with a pair of black leaves.

Applied Art (Na2462.1)

Miniature ceramic model for a bronze drinking fountain, commissioned for Castle Park, Bristol. Covered with manganese slip to imitate bronze. Castellated shape, the outside with incised brickwork and a door, set into a ship's prow. Part of the artist's initial design process.

Applied Art (Na2462.2)

Miniature ceramic model, with separate base, for a bronze drinking fountain, commissioned for Castle Park, Bristol. Covered with manganese slip to imitate bronze. Final shape with incised wavy lines and no other decoration. Part of the artist's initial design process.

Applied Art (Na2462.3)

Miniature ceramic model, with separate base, for a bronze drinking fountain, commissioned for Castle Park, Bristol. Covered with manganese slip to imitate bronze. Final shape with incised wavy lines and no other decoration. Part of the artist's initial design process.

Applied Art (Na359)

Rectangular pieces of printed cottons and cretonnes - samples from pattern book - machine stitched together; border of mid-green rep on three sides. The patterns are all typical of the 1950s: archtectural designs, floral and 'Festival of Britain' abstracts. Lined with white sheeting. Machine stitched

Applied Art (Na363.a-b)

2 unused canvases of Berlin woolwork embroidery. Shaped for chair back and seat: large roses, violets, etc on pale yellow ground Glass beads used for some flowers .a- chairback .b - chair seat

Applied Art (Na364)

unfinished cross-stitch embroidery in coloured silks on 4-thread canvas with the design woven-in in three shades of blue Worked in red, yellow, green and blue embroidery thread cross-stitch

Applied Art (Na365)

wool and silk on purple canvas: star pattern in double cross stitch

Applied Art (Na368)

machine-tooled ground, engraved 'L.S.McK' within oblong cartouche In leather case

Applied Art (Na370)

White linen, drawn thread work and embroidered Squares containing embroidered flowers amongst borders of drawn thread work Zig zag edging of drawn and cut thread work

Applied Art (Na371)

embroidered on cream fabric and bordered with brown velvet ribbon copied from Ricart's 1480 map of Bristol. Framed

Applied Art (Na372)

Sampler kit commemorating marriage of Prince of Wales and Lady Diana Spencer. Polythene bag containing a piece of linen, squared chart, embroidery cottons, needle, coloured reproduction of finished design: stylised floral meander border; thistle, rose, crowned C, shamrock and leek; Prince of Wales' feathers between lion and unicorn.

Applied Art (73/134)

Helmet-shaped on acanthus-moulded foot, wide lip; polychrome flowers, insects [distorted in firing]

Applied Art (73/135)

Spirally-fluted globular body on flared foot, long octagonal neck; polychrome flowers, insects

Applied Art (Na397)

Glass dome of oval section, bottom edge bound with paper tape; oval ebonised wood base with groove to take glass, lined maroon plush, and raised on four bun feet..

Applied Art (Na400)

Bertha. Semi-circular chemical lace collar with motifs of muslin leaves and flowers. Round neck, rounded collar and straight-edged fronts, scalloped lower border. Neck border of small rose ball motifs on a bar ground, above stylised carnation motifs springing from stylised leaf-sprays in muslin. Collar edged with picot-like trefoil motifs all round.

Applied Art (Na402)

Cream painted wooden bed frame in parts. Head and foot of bed with brass stretcher and turned posts (.b-c) Wooden base frame with iron springs and woollen fabric cover (.a) and match box with 7 brass fittings in it.

Applied Art (Na403)

Mattress: blue-and-white striped ticking, stuffed with ?hair; bordered construction with bound edges; hair stitched in place with string through leather circles on top and bottom surfaces. Cover: white cotton, machine-stitched French seams, the open end fastened by three covered buttons and worked buttonholes.

Applied Art (Na406.a,b)

2 bed sheets. .a- bottom sheet hemmed all round; .b- top sheet hemmed on three edges, top edge hem-stitched.

Applied Art (Na407.a,b)

Cream wool flannel worked with cream thread and pale blue wool; the sides turned under once and herringboned; top and bottom edges blanket-stitched; at each end two-three-two lines of blue running stitches.

Applied Art (Na408)

White linen; all edges hem-stitched; drawn-work border in coarse thread with wheel corners; four narrower bands of drawn work, not joined at corners, form square in centre within which is embroidered in thick white cotton a floral garland around the letter 'D' or 'C'(?).

Applied Art (Na409)

Rectangle of cream wool flannel joined to a half-sleeve shaped piece with running stitch, the raw edges herringboned; the lower half of the seam left open and strengthened with cream silk ribbon. Rectangle: top and side edges bound with cream silk ribbon, deep hem at bottom with two rows of feather stitching, one with added French knots; herringboned square patch, darn, tape stitched to back. Sleeve piece: herringboned placket, top edges pleated into a white cotton cuffs which fasten together with a covered button and a worked buttonhole; side herringboned; deep tuck, row of feather stitching, herringboned hem; bottom edge scalloped and buttonhole-stitched; a tape stitched to front, two tapes stitched to cuffs.

Applied Art (Na410)

Blue cotton, white silk and sewing cotton on white linen, all edges turned under and finished with a drawn-thread hem. Tape loop stitched to centre of top edge; two square patches (one hemmed, the other closely oversewn); three darned areas (L-shaped, lozenge, intersecting triangles), blue cotton. Initialled in centre: 'KC' in blue thread.

Applied Art (Na411)

Linen thread on black-and-white striped ticking, one selvedge, three edges left raw. Sample of invisible patching: patch let into centre, the raw edges on the back blanket-stitched.

Applied Art (Na414)

Chintz design. Block printed large flower sprigs printed in greens, pinks and blues on cream feather design ground

Applied Art (Na418)

Brussels bobbin and needle point applied to machine net in Brussels design. Net is cut away behind open filling stiches, some point de niege ground. Long, pointed ends. Cream coloured

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Applied Art (Na430)

Slice cut from a 12cm diam. cylinder of 3mm acrylic; four groups of nine pairs of holes drilled along top and bottom edges through which nylon thread is threaded to form horizontal & vertical lines in 2 layers. Lines are threaded with pearlised beads in fixed formation at the corners where the lines cross; where threads don't cross groups of beads run free.

Applied Art (Na431)

Applied Art (Na438)

Slightly concave sloping flange with shaped edge. Gilded rays alternating with dentils. Transfer-printed in brown with the Arms of the City of Bristol and motto 'VIRTUTE ET INDUSTRIA'. sanding under flange.

Applied Art (Na439)

Slightly concave sloping flange with shaped edge. Gilded rays alternating with dentils. Transfer-printed in brown with the Arms of the City of Bristol and motto 'VIRTUTE ET INDUSTRIA'.

Applied Art (Na440)

Slightly concave sloping flange with shaped edge. Gilded rays alternating with dentils. Transfer-printed in brown with the Arms of the City of Bristol and motto 'VIRTUTE ET INDUSTRIA'.

Applied Art (Na441)

Slightly concave sloping flange with shaped edge. Gilded rays alternating with dentils. Transfer-printed in brown with the Arms of the City of Bristol and motto 'VIRTUTE ET INDUSTRIA'.