IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 110935 accession number: T.1-1988 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 30 September 2019 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Map sampler, cream silk, embroidered with polychrome silks in chain, random satin, stem and couched stitch. Inscribed in a cartouche in the top right corner 'A Map of England and Wales', 'Blinco 1777' is worked. The map depicts England, Wales, and the Southern part of Scotland, the coastline of part of Ireland, France and the Channel Islands. Black lettering and county boundaries are worked in stem stitch with some couched work and are emphasized by two or three rows of fine polychrome chain stitch. Coastline and rivers are worked with bands of freely worked linear satin stitch with some shading of polychrome silks. title: sampler LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Bequested by Mrs Margery Thorre STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110935 TECHNIQUES ---------- Map sampler, cream silk, embroidered with polychrome silks in chain, random satin, stem and couched stitch weaving TECHNIQUES ---------- mounting TECHNIQUES ---------- embroidering CATEGORIES ------ category: embroidery DATING ------ creation date: 1777 - 1777 creation date earliest: 1777 creation date latest: 1777 culture: 18th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Blinco, B. DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Length units: cm value: 69.9 dimension: Length units: in value: 23.3/8 dimension: Width units: cm value: 59.9 dimension: Width units: in value: 27.1/2