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Production: Unknown
Linen sampler embroidered with red, green, and black silk, linen, silver, and silver-gilt threads in back, buttonhole, hem, ladder and plaited braid stitches various composite stitches. There is also cut and drawn work with needle lace filling stitches. All the edges are hemmed. The sampler has seven detached squares of cut and drawn work with silk and metal thread embroidery, five small examples of metal thread work, and one band of cut and drawn work with unfinished needlepoint lace fillings showing how the patterns were built up.
History note: Sir William Lawrence when published in 1926; Lady St John Hope
Lady St John Hope Bequest
Length: 16.5 cm
Length: 6.3/8 in
Width: 20.5 cm
Width: 8 in
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1952-10-23) by Hope, St John, Lady
16th Century, Late-17th Century, Early#
After
1575
CE
-
Before
1625
CE
This sampler, stylistically would seem to reflect the complex embroidery techniques popularly used on English costume and accessories of the period, and also the common pattern sources available to both English and continental needlewomen.
embroidery
Silk
ground & embroidery
Linen
Weaving
: Linen sampler embroidered with red, green, and black silk, linen, silver, and silver-gilt threads in back, buttonhole, hem, ladder and plaited braid stitches with various composite stitches. There is also cut and drawn work with needle lace filling stitches and all the edges are hemmed.
Embroidering
Cut and drawn work
Needlepoint (lace)
Accession number: T.2-1952
Primary reference Number: 110905
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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