English band sampler, by Mary Culley

An image of Textiles. Embroidery sampler/Band sampler. Culley, Mary. The sampler comprises of horizontal bands of repeat border patterns, a double alphabet, numerals and an inscription which reads ' you soon will improve if learning you love, be you to others kind and true as youd have others be to you and neither do not say to men whater you would not take again fear god and honour the king, love god alone all things above and as thyself thy neighbor love duty fear and love we owe to god above', 'Mary Culley is my name and England is my nation finchamstead is my dwelling plase and Christ is my salvation finishd in the 11 year of my age in the year 1790. Thanks to Mr Saint John for giving me schooling and i hope to return it by improveing god save the church our king'. There is also a wide band with floral and figurative detached motifs including lions, on either side of a building. Linen, embroidered with polychrome silks in cross and satin stitch. There is a selvedge at the top and bottom and the sides are turned under and stitched. Length 17 in, width 11.1/4 in, 1790. English.

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Textiles. Embroidery sampler/Band sampler. Culley, Mary. The sampler comprises of horizontal bands of repeat border patterns, a double alphabet, numerals and an inscription which reads ' you soon will improve if learning you love, be you to others kind and true as youd have others be to you and neither do not say to men whater you would not take again fear god and honour the king, love god alone all things above and as thyself thy neighbor love duty fear and love we owe to god above', 'Mary Culley is my name and England is my nation finchamstead is my dwelling plase and Christ is my salvation finishd in the 11 year of my age in the year 1790. Thanks to Mr Saint John for giving me schooling and i hope to return it by improveing god save the church our king'. There is also a wide band with floral and figurative detached motifs including lions, on either side of a building. Linen, embroidered with polychrome silks in cross and satin stitch. There is a selvedge at the top and bottom and the sides are turned under and stitched. Length 17 in, width 11.1/4 in, 1790. English.

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Accession Number: T.167-1928
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/27.0
Focal length: 80
Camera: Hasselblad H4D-31
Photographer name: Amy Jugg
Image height: 1025 pixels
Image width: 706 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.0 (Windows)
Filesize: 882.56kB
Exposure time: 1/60
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 27/1
Captured: 2013:06:11 10:17:31

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19th Century alphabet band sampler cross stitch deer dogs embroidered embroidery English Fitz_AA floral flower pot flowers Georgian hemmed inscribed inscriptions lettering letters linen Mary Culley needle needlework needleworking numbers numerals polychrome sampler satin stitch selvedge sewing sewn silk stags stitched stitches stitching textile thread

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