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Owen Jones, Original drawing for The Grammar of Ornament, 1856.

Alistair Maynard, textile design, circa 1965.

Porcelain cup and cover by Fürstenberg, late 18th century or early 19th century, Germany.

Teapot with fossil decoration, Staffordshire, circa 1760–65.

This simple unlined jacket represents an informal style of clothing worn by women in the early 17th century. Unlike more fitted waistcoats, this loose, unshaped jacket may have been worn during pregnancy. A repeating pattern of curving scrolls covers the linen from which spring sweet peas, oak leaves, acorns, columbine, lilies, pansies, borage, hawthorn, strawberries and honeysuckle embroidered in coloured silks, silver and silver-gilt threads. The embroidery stitches include chain, stem, satin, dot and double-plait stitch, as well as knots and couching of the metal threads. Sleeves and sides are embroidered together with an insertion stitch in two shades of green instead of a conventionally sewn seam. Although exquisitely worked, this jacket is crudely cut from a single layer of linen, indicating the work of a seamstress or embroiderer, someone without a tailor's training. It has no cuffs, collar or lining, and the sleeves are cut in one piece. The jacket was later altered to fit a thinner person. The sleeves were taken off, the armholes re-shaped, the sides cut down, and the sleeves set in again. [V&A]

Ivory cup and cover made by Gran Principe Ferdinando de' Medici of Tuscany in 1681.

French 1860s textile design by J.D. Cornuaud.

Jacqueline Groag, design for a children's tablecloth, 1965.

Lill Tschudi, London Buses, 1949.

Part of a head ornament, later a brooch fitting, with foiled rock crystals, pearls and garnets set in enamelled gold, British, circa 1840-50.

Eric Fraser, advertisment for July 1926 issues of Weldon's women's journals.

Owen Jones, Original drawing for The Grammar of Ornament, 1856.

Patchwork men's dressing gown, maker unknown, made of waistcoat silks dating to around 1840-1860.

French 1860s textile design by J.D. Cornuaud.

Olly Moss, 8-Bit Willow plates, 2013, made in Stoke on Trent.