IDENTIFIERS
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id:	110821
accession number:	T.90-1938

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Monday 20 July 2020

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Linen sampler embroidered with polychrome silks in damask and pattern darning and tent stitch with applied silver metal wire braid.  The edges are covered by gathered pink silk ribbon with silver metal wire trimmings.  The sampler is made up of twenty darning rectangles arranged in four horizontal rows of five.  they are very varied in style and colour; as well as conventional monochrome damask patterns and the multi-coloured stripes, there are also more complex imitation woven repeat patterns among them.  An inscription has been worked in the centre in a mixture of Flemish and Latin which reads 'BH. den 22: ANNO:1760'
title:	sampler

LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Applied Arts
creditline: Bequeathed by Mrs H.A. Longman

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110821





TECHNIQUES
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Linen sampler embroidered with polychrome silks in damask and pattern darning and tent stitch with applied silver metal wire braid.  The edges are covered by gathered pink silk ribbon with silver metal wire trimmings.
weaving
TECHNIQUES
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weaving
TECHNIQUES
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braiding
TECHNIQUES
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embroidering

CATEGORIES
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category: embroidery

DATING
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creation date:	1760 - 1760
creation date earliest:	1760
creation date latest:	1760
culture:	18th Century

CREATORS
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maker: Unidentified

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Length
units: cm
value: 31.5

dimension: Length
units: in
value: 12.1/2

dimension: Width
units: cm
value: 36

dimension: Width
units: in
value: 14.1/2



EXHIBITIONS HISTORY
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title:	Samplers
CITATIONS
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Fitzwilliam Museum Handbooks, Samplers
Sampler Exhibition in the Octagon
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