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Production: Unidentified
Linen band sampler embroidered with linen and polychrome silk threads in chain, feather, cross, long-armed cross, and whipped running stitch with French knots. All the edges are hemmed. Most of the sampler is worked in traditional horizontal motifs of stylized flowers, some arcaded some not. The bottom part however, which is separated from the top part by an alphabet and the inscription 'GRS 1719', is exclusively worked in French knots. A wide band at the bottom is filled with detached flower and bird motifs, two corner motifs and a pierced heart and a coronet within a wreath.
Bequeathed by Mrs H.A. Longman
Length: 92.25 cm
Length: 37 in
Width: 19.5 cm
Width: 7.3/4 in
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed by Longman, H. A., Mrs
18th Century
Production date:
AD 1719
ground and thread
Linen
thread
Silk
Weaving
: Linen band sampler embroidered with linen and polychrome silk threads in chain, feather, cross, long-armed cross, and whipped running stitch with French knots. All the edges are hemmed.
Embroidering
Inscription present: the initials are embroidered in light pink silk thread, the date in blue silk thread
Accession number: T.96-1938
Primary reference Number: 110827
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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The Fitzwilliam Museum (2024) "Sampler" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110827 Accessed: 2024-04-25 07:59:40
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