IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 110676 accession number: T.130-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 20 July 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Band sampler, linen, embroidered with polychrome silks in cross and eyelet stitch. There is a selvedge on the bottom, the other edges are turned under and stitched. The sampler is made up of horizontal bands of narrow repeat border patterns, crowns, coronets, three alphabets, numerals and various initials. At the bottom a wide band of all-over patterns is worked and inscribed 'Elizabeth Cale finished her psampler in the year of her age and in the year of our Lord God 1726'. title: sampler LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts collection: J. W. L. Glaisher creditline: Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110676 TECHNIQUES ---------- Band sampler, linen, embroidered with polychrome silks in cross and eyelet stitch. There is a selvedge on the bottom, the other edges are turned under and stitched. weaving TECHNIQUES ---------- embroidering CATEGORIES ------ category: embroidery DATING ------ creation date: 1726 - 1726 creation date earliest: 1726 creation date latest: 1726 culture: 18th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Cole, Elizabeth DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Length units: in value: 1'6.3/4 dimension: Width units: in value: 8.3/4 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Samplers CITATIONS -------- Sampler Exhibition in the Octagon ---