One of the loveliest and most surprising objects in Special Collections featured in The Times Higher’s Odds and Quads section last week: our scrapbook of fabric samples from Ackermann’s Repository.
Page of fabric samples from British Dyeing Patterns.
Odds and Quads tells the stories of the many unusual and interesting things to be found in university collections. The scrapbook’s appearance is particularly timely as this winter we will be working on our dyeing and textile history collection to bring out the historic connections to the University and the city of Bradford. Here’s the Odds and Quads piece and here’s some more detail from the 100 Objects exhibition.
Special Collections - University of Bradford 