English embroidered sewing roll or huswif

An image of Sewing roll (‘hussif’ or ‘huswif’). Linen, embroidered, in polychrome silk rococo stitch, with silk lining, and ribbon binding, decorated with stylized anchors and a ship, length 26.5 cm, width10 cm, late 18th Century. English.

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Sewing roll (‘hussif’ or ‘huswif’). Linen, embroidered, in polychrome silk rococo stitch, with silk lining, and ribbon binding, decorated with stylized anchors and a ship, length 26.5 cm, width10 cm, late 18th Century. English.

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Accession Number: T.2-1922
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/22.0
Focal length: 120
Camera: Hasselblad H3DII-31
Photographer name: Jaymes Sinclair
Image height: 691 pixels
Image width: 1024 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.4 (Windows)
Filesize: 264.50kB
Exposure time: 1/125
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 22/1

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