Embroidery patterns.
Subject
Subject Source: Other Source
Scope Note: Sets of instructions to be followed in decorative needlework. Source: 'Concise Oxford English dictionary', 11th edition (Oxford, 2004).
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Embroidery patterns probably compiled by Barbara Montgomery, later wife to Alexander Walker., [Circa 1809.]
File
Identifier: MS.14098B
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The collection covers Alexander Walker's military and administrative service in the East India Company in great detail from circa 1790 to 1801, notably in Malabar and then in Gujarat, where he was Political Resident at Baroda, until he left India in 1810. He came out of retirement to govern St Helena from 1822 to 1828, The importance of the collection lies in the detailed administrative content of Walker's correspondence and memoranda, particularly for the Gujarat period, a continuing...
Dates:
[Circa 1809.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers, private and official, of Brigadier-General Alexander Walker.
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Papers of Alexander Walker and his family concerning family and estate affairs.
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Notebooks, school exercise books and other miscellaneous papers.
Files of the Gude Cause project, relating to Gude Cause quilt., 2009.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.13293/187-194
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Electronic archive, digital images, sound and video recordings, and related ephemera of the Gude Cause project, 2008-2010. The project’s main objective was to celebrate the centenary of the Women’s Social and Political Union procession which took place in Edinburgh on 10 October 1909. Furthermore, in the light of a report published before the 2007 Scottish Parliament Election, Gude Cause sought to reenergize women’s participation in Scottish political life.The archive charts the...
Dates:
2009.
Miscellaneous papers., 19th century-1907, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.14193B
Scope and Contents
The papers consist of:
(i) Extracts from the log of the East India Company ship 'Exeter', 1803-1804, including a description of an engagement with the French (folio 1);
(ii) Embroidery patterns, 19th century (folio 13);
(iii) Latin hexameters deploring the British attitude to war in the late 18th century (folio 17);
(iv) Miscellaneous papers, 1836-1907, undated (folio 29).
Dates:
19th century-1907, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
/
Correspondence and papers, private and official, of Brigadier-General Alexander Walker.
/
Papers of Alexander Walker and his family concerning family and estate affairs.
/
Notebooks, school exercise books and other miscellaneous papers.
Volume of embroidery patterns with a dedication on the flyleaf 'Charlotte Scott from Sarah Eliza Jessop. Dec. 8th 1831'., 1831.
File
Identifier: MS.10388
Scope and Contents
The volume also contains knitting patterns, several anecdotes, recipes and a few rough pencil sketches.
Dates:
1831.