Author: GRÖGER, MIKULASCHEK & CO.:
Title: [MORAVIAN TEXTILE SAMPLES]. Bettzeuge no. III (Bedclothes). Sternberg, Mähren, no date (ca 1890).
Description: . Oblong 8vo. Size: 25 x 11 cm. Leporello comprising 24 leaves with 232 tipped-in woven cotton samples, mostly striped and check patterns in red and blue, each given a hand-written number in ink. A few samples with some very light staining but overall in very good condition. Original bordeaux coloured cloth, blind-stamped with company name within ornamental frame, with paper label on upper cover, somewhat rubbed. Front end papers decorated in Jugend style.A very neat and well-preserved pattern book belonging to the weaving manufacturer Gröger, Mikulaschek & Co., from Sternberg in Moravia, today Sternberk in Czech Republic. Sternberg was an important centre of cotton and silk industry with more than 1000 mechanical weaving looms around 1900.

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