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Category
Textiles
Date
Unknown
Materials
Card, wool
Measurements
50 mm (Width); 105 mm (Length)
Order this imageCollection
Mr Straw's House, Nottinghamshire
NT 740792.4
Summary
Chadwick's card packaging with original black thread wrapped around it. The card is plain white on the back and olive coloured to the top and bottom sections which are rounded and sit wider than the centre which is plain white. At the top; Chadwick's WOOL & 85% NYLON 15%' to the right of this the logo of a prancing lion facing left in blue and white. the lion has a crown and collar and is holding a diamond shape with a club in the centre. On the bottom of the card; 'For reinforcing and mending BLACK A product of J & P Coats Ltd. Made in Great Britain'. The word 'BLACK' has been printed on afterwards. The black thread is wrapped around the centre and would have been used to darn socks. Kept in the inner tray,740792.1.3, of a sewing box 740792.1.
Provenance
Straw collection bequeathed to the National Trust on the death in 1990 of William Straw.