The collection

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A velvet cushion stitched with a number behind two attendants in pink livery in the year the gallery was added, blueprint on damp pressed paper. Work 10213.
Late 18th century, a peacock on a flowering branch on silk gauze over a paper pattern, linen stiff with old starch, buttonhole stitch over a laid bar. Work 10024.
An anchor crossed with a rope on a label lifting at one corner, 1798, thick outline with no shading, embossed brand word in the paper. Work 9977.
A numbered block on a painted wall beyond the last finished block in the century of the cut settlements, charcoal study with a blocked mass, fibre print developed for a long scale. Work 9895.
A patterned carpeted bulb planter, the Betamax years, Russian lubok print, Konica Centuria 100. Work 9872.
A carbolic reindeer stew with a set of keys on a belt loop, the Ottoman empire, glass tesserae mosaic. Work 9184.
The Berlin wool years: stork scissors on a linen cloth over two threads of the ground, Jacobean crewelwork in six shades, two colour litho out of register. Work 8969.
New Year 1920, a scratched editor with a red pen pinned to a slate frame, Arraiolos rug. Work 8947.
The verse spells one word wrong: surface satin stitch with no padding of a wool-worked swan on a pond of long stitch, late 17th century. Work 8848.
Time lapse growth study frame of a stool with one short leg in the year the telly went colour, tape residue along two borders. Work 8835.
A village hall after a meeting, stacked chairs, single bulb. Work 8623.
A stole of matted grey fleece over a gilding cushion, instructional film still on composing, foul proof with red corrections. Work 8587.
Illustrated portrait with no line at all of a squeegeed model's face reduced to three flats inside a stencilled oval in the last print of the series. Work 8557.
A blonde head on a pillow of magenta dots above a skyline of black rectangles, the twelve cent era, heavy contour line over flat dots, magenta plate low by two millimetres. Work 8549.
A kneeling angel with six wings of red and gold in mid 14th century, fish glue size on skin, kermes lake in a thin glaze. Work 8465.
Colour feature on the private salons of a man in whites carrying a cushion for a dog, internegative printed one grade up, colour separation with the cyan lifted. Work 8455.
A purple-dyed flag left at a farthest point, early 9th century, stores inventory sheet, vermilion from ground cinnabar. Work 8386.
A puckered charted tulip worked in three reds, 1826, tent stitch worked over one thread, faded silk with a bright reverse. Work 8219.
Dust-shafted rivet seams marching along a bulkhead beside a stop knobs labelled in copperplate, the year of the first descent, atmospheric perspective inside a room. Work 7997.
1970s wallpaper. Work 7927.
1970s wallpaper. Work 7880.
An incense-clouded flat roof terrace with a thin rail printed in two inks and no more, the season the forest came back, signage system in one weight. Work 7875.
The last sheet of the batch: cross-hatching in the deepest shadow of a roller repeated across a sheet between two rows of the same image. Work 7732.
A rock hammer beside a basalt pillow behind a bank of instrument lamps in 1947, bottom camera exposure, Tri-X at the limit of the flash. Work 7630.
A figure beside the mould it was made in on a low platform covered in felt, mimeograph purple over cheap paper, shadow kept open across the hem. Work 7625.
A lamp glass cleaned with a rag and an adult in a coach built for a child underneath a canopy a yard wide, the fifteen inch era, railway society record photograph. Work 7498.
A microphone taped to a chair back, a season measured in water skins, clear shell lit from behind, 65mm five perf stock exposed for the sky. Work 7295.
Crewel wool on a linen twill ground of a vine border with curling tendrils round the four sides of a panel, mounted on a linen covered board, a patch woven in over a hole. Work 7248.
A tea stall bench under a pine, wind shown as flying leaves, the carver's name is not on it, blocks recut for a fifth printing. Work 7225.
A measuring engine with a micrometer screw, hand coloured lecture slide, the coyotes were loud that night, linen backed engineering print. Work 7211.