IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 81890 accession number: T.2-1995 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 30 April 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Sampler, made of nine-joined cotton, linen and wool panels sewn and embroidered with polychrome cotton threads and brown wool. One panel is made of red wool and embroidered with white cotton, one is made of 'stocking web' with an irregular darning pattern; one is a purple and white check cotton with patches of rough darning. The bottom edge is finished with a frill; the sides are bound, overstitched or hemmed. The sampler comprises plain sewing examples of seaming, patching, buttonhole, eyelet holes, running, back, cross, feather and chain stitches and buttonhole bars. The sampler also has four alphabets, two sets of numerals and twice the name 'Olivia Ambrose' worked. title: sampler LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Bequeathed by M. Dorothy Miller STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/81890 TECHNIQUES ---------- Sampler, made of nine-joined cotton, linen and wool panels sewn and embroidered with polychrome cotton threads and brown wool. The bottom edge is finished with a frill; the sides are bound, overstitched or hemmed. The sampler comprises plain sewing examples of seaming, patching, buttonhole, eyelet holes, running, back, cross, feather and chain stitches and buttonhole bars weaving TECHNIQUES ---------- embroidering TECHNIQUES ---------- hemming TECHNIQUES ---------- overstitching CATEGORIES ------ category: embroidery DATING ------ creation date: 1880 - 1890 creation date earliest: 1880 creation date latest: 1890 culture: 19th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Miller, Mabel Dorothy maker: Ambrose, Olivia DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Frill units: cm value: 3 dimension: Frill units: in value: 1.1/4 dimension: Length units: cm value: 138.5 dimension: Length units: in value: 54.1/2 dimension: Width units: cm value: 22.75 dimension: Width units: in value: 9