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  • Woman’s Mantle (chyrpy) (Turkmenistan), 19th century

    Woman’s white cotton chyrpy embroidered with silk and wool felt appliqué in red, green, yellow, blue and magenta. Vertical stalks of highly stylized tulips rise from the hem, and a…

  • Border (England), 1835

    Large blue peony clustered with three gray and white daisies. Thin leaves are multi-shade brown flock, one base color, three other shades. Ground of diagonal thin yellow stripes under entire…

  • Darning Sampler (England), 1800

    Handkerchief embroidered with five darning crosses on sheer linen. The initials FR and HW surmonted by two crowns, and the date 1800 are worked in black silk; the crosses in…

  • Frieze And Border (France), 1820–35

    Suspended in arched framework with pendants, orange flowers hanging from brown foliage.

  • Sample Book, Wallpapers of Merit, Book No. 3, 1917

    Consists of 95 sidewalls and 73 borders. Gold embossed title on black paper cover. Papers consist of imitations of textures and woods, floral borders, stripes, large over-all patterns

  • Darning Sampler (England), 1809

    A white rose on a stem with leaves and buds in the center and surrounded by eight crosses of darning stitches. Hemmed on four sides.

  • Darning Sampler (England), 1785

    Darning sampler with five pattern crosses. Hemmed on all four sides. Five holes were cut from the plain weave foundation fabric and the holes darned to simulate five different weaves;…

  • Sampler (Sri Lanka), 1956

    Part of Singalese alphabet above figures of lion and woman carrying pot.

  • Darning Sampler, 1811

    Fourteen darning crosses, inset patch in middle with crowned monogram, two inset corners and two decorative embroidered squares.

  • Darning Sampler, 1816

    Four darning crosses, one with knitting, in the middle crowned monogram. Four decorative squares and each numeral of the date in a embroidered square. Central patch was not removed and…

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