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Description: | This artificial silk collar was crocheted by Lady Swan for her husband Sir Joseph Swan. Joseph Swan (1828-1914) was famous for developing carbon filament light bulbs. In his search to find a better filament Swan experimented with squeezed nitrocellulose. The resulting artificial fibres were the basis for the development of artificial silk. | License: | http://www.imagine.org.uk/about/copyright/ | Rights holder: | Tyne & Wear Museums | Subjects: | living in the North East fashion men | Source: | Tyne and Wear Imagine | Identifier: | http://www.imagine.org.uk/details/index.... | Go to resource |
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