IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 110842 accession number: T.111-1938 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-stitch with pattern or damask darning and stocking darning stitches. There is a selvedge on both sides and the top and bottom are turned under and stitched. The sampler is made up of horizontal bands of repeat border patterns and rectangles of darning patterns, one band including two flower sprays and another the inscription 'JOSEPHINE BIERCOM 1844'. title: sampler NOTES ----- type: history note value: given to the donor by Evelyn Walker in 1924, who had bought it in Liverpool LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Mrs H.A. Longman Bequest STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110842 TECHNIQUES ---------- Band sampler, linen, embroidered with polychrome silks in cross-stitch with pattern or damask darning and stocking darning stitches. There is a selvedge on both sides and the top and bottom are turned under and stitched. weaving TECHNIQUES ---------- embroidering TECHNIQUES ---------- darning CATEGORIES ------ category: embroidery DATING ------ creation date: 1844 - 1844 creation date earliest: 1844 creation date latest: 1844 culture: 19th Century, Mid# CREATORS -------- maker: Biercom, Josephine DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Length units: in value: 10.5/8 dimension: Width units: in value: 11.1/2 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Samplers CITATIONS -------- Sampler Exhibition in the Octagon Samplers ---