Production: Unknown
Sampler, cotton, embroidered with polychrome wools and silks, with a little silver metal thread in cross, Florentine, satin, back and tent stitch with some couched work. The sampler is partially backed and the edges are bound in pale blue silk. The sampler comprises detached motifs of geometric floral and all-over patterns.
Miss Grace Clarke Bequest
Length: 72" in
Width: 9" in
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1940-05) by Clarke, Grace F., Miss
19th Century, Mid#
Circa
1840
-
Circa
1860
polychrome
Wool
polychrome
Silk
Cotton
Silver metal thread
Weaving
: Sampler, cotton, embroidered with polychrome wools and silks, with a little silver metal thread in cross, Florentine, satin, back and tent stitch with some couched work. The sampler is partially backed and the edges are bound in pale blue silk.
Embroidering
Couching (embroidering)
Backing (textile)
Accession number: T.19-1940
Primary reference Number: 110884
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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