Search Demo: Museum Collection

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  Sampler (USA), 1827

  Sampler embroidered in red, black and blue on a white ground, with the alphabet and inscription Susanna Meck 1827 at the top, and many small detached motifs including animals, birds,…

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  Placemat, early 20th century

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  Sampler (England), 17th century

  Thirteen cross borders in cutwork with needlepoint stitches and embroidery in satin and curled stitches.

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  Tile (USA), ca. 1880

  Blue. Framed by plants, or swan floats on a pond.

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  Sampler (Morocco), 18th–19th century

  Square of undyed cotton partially filled with sections of borders and designs, some suggestive of Renaissance symmetrical stylized plant borders and some fantastic geometrical symmetrial floral repeats. In faded multicolored…

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  Sampler (Austria), late 18th–early 19th century

  Long narrow sampler of knitting in fine linen, showing twenty-five sections of different stitches, narrow end designs.

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  Placemat (USA), 1928

  Fine natural linen warp and fine pale orange weft. Loosely woven with heavy off-white weft forming inlay in “Spanish lace” effect.

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  Placemat (USA), 1929

  Placemat in tan, blue and green with heavier white floss forming uneven borders of narrow stripes on all four sides.

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  Placemat (USA), 1930

  Placemat with narrow striped borders on left and right sides in orange and red. Orange and red squares in different sizes along the bottom edge.

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  Border (Democratic Republic of the Congo), late 19th century

  Long narrow band made from two shorter pieces stitched together. All natural raffia color, in a creamy tone. Three pattern areas of geometric interlacing of alternating bands of textured pile…