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Title	French lines
Collection	Crafts Study Centre
Textile Printer	Barron and Larcher
Description	Length of blue cotton with a discharge block print (white).
Id Number Current Accession	T.74.206.a
Subject	printed textiles, length
Measurements	83.6 centimetres
Material	cotton
Dye	indigo, nitric acid
History	No specific dates have been given with reference to the printing of textiles except in certain cases. In many instances the exact date the block was cut is unknown and then some blocks were used for many years. Lengths by Phyllis Barron: 1920-40. Lengths by Dorothy Larcher: 1923-40.
Relation Exhibition	Exhibit No.153 in �Hand block printed textiles: Phyllis Barron and Dorothy Larcher�, Crafts Study Centre, Bath, 24th March - 2nd July 1978.
Rights Owner	Crafts Study Centre/Crafts Study Centre 2004
Style Period Period	1920s-40s
Technique	hand-blockprinting
Process	Cotton dyed in indigo. Block printed in nitric acid to discharge the design.