IDENTIFIERS
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id:	110827
accession number:	T.96-1938

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 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.
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/110827





TECHNIQUES
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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.
weaving
TECHNIQUES
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embroidering

CATEGORIES
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category: embroidery

DATING
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creation date:	1719 - 1719
creation date earliest:	1719
creation date latest:	1719
culture:	18th Century

CREATORS
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maker: Unidentified

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Length
units: cm
value: 92.25

dimension: Length
units: in
value: 37

dimension: Width
units: cm
value: 19.5

dimension: Width
units: in
value: 7.3/4



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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