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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,…

  • Sampler (England), 17th century

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

  • 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…

  • Hand-woven Sample (USA), ca. 1949

    Handwoven partition material of open-weave plaid in natural tones with solid and open-weave areas. The bleached and unbleached hemp-like warps alternate with very finely plied cotton threads of brown, yellow…

  • Hand-woven Sample (USA), before 1953

    Hand-woven sample in a checkerboard of tan and silver rectangles. The warp is of white cotton, used in pairs. One weft set is aluminum strips and the other tan paper…

  • Hand-woven Sample (USA), before 1953

    Handwoven sample with a subtle horizontal stripe of black and white mixed yarns. The warp is of off-white silk; the weft alternates two sheds of off-white plied silk yarns with…

  • Hand-woven Sample (USA), before 1953

    Handwoven sample with vertical bands of tweed textures. The warp is of burgundy, bright pink, light pink, and light gray-green yarns; the weft of heavy dark brown hemp.

  • Hand-woven Sample (USA), before 1953

    Handwoven sample with a black and white horizontal stripe. The warp is of off-white cotton; the weft alternates three black yarns with one off-white rayon yarn. Narrow band top and…

  • Hand-woven Sample (USA), before 1953

    Handwoven sample with narrow horizontal stripes in natural colors. The warp is of undyed cotton, the weft of heavy white silk and unbleached linen.

  • Hand-woven Sample (USA), before 1953

    Handwoven sample for fabric with a color-and weave effect. Bright red-orange fine cotton warp. The weft alternates one thin green silk yarn with a paired weft of off-white cotton bouclé…

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