Landscape-format rectangular, cream Christmas card with a small sample of barkcloth attached to the front. The cream textile is decorated with 3 brown stripes. The left-hand one of these has smaller bands branching off. The decoration is outlined with black dots. 2 separate dotted stripes each have a small section of chevrons on a brown ground roughly at their centre.
christmas card; sample (textileworking: barkcloth making); textile
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