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Maker: Unidentified
Sampler worked in polychrome silks containing a wide range of patterns including figures, an alphabet, geometric bands, a wreath and a pierced heart.
Linen sampler embroidered with polychrome silks in double running, cross, long-armed cross, stem, and satin stitch. All the edges of the sampler are hemmed. This almost square sampler is covered in a wide range of patterns, figurative, geometric, and floral, loosely arranged around a central motif of a pierced heart within a wreath. The fourth corner has only small 'spot' motifs. Repeat pattern bands of various scales dominate two sides with 'spot' motifs on a third. The fourth side carries an alphabet, the initials 'EH' and the date '1675' above which is a row of sprigs and vases of flowers, a horse, lion, deer and bird, and one male and one female figure. The central wreath is surrounded by spot motifs, linear in character, mainly worked in double running stitch.
Bequeathed by Mrs H.A. Longman
Length: 43.75 cm
Length: 17.1/2 in
Width: 42.5 cm
Width: 17.1/8 in
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1938) by Longman, H. A., Mrs
17th Century#
Production date:
AD 1675
The use of a single line of stitching for the spot motifs is a style usually associated with work from German-speaking Europe, whilst the use of the pierced heart symbolising the Christian Sacred Heart usually denotes a Catholic background.
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Silk
Linen
Weaving
: Linen sampler embroidered with polychrome silks in double running, cross, long-armed cross, stem, and satin stitch. All the edges of the sampler are hemmed.
Embroidering
Inscription present: embroidered in polychrome silk thread
Accession number: T.126-1938
Primary reference Number: 110857
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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