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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  Sampler (England), 17th century

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

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  Lance Point, 19th century

  Long flat head with two rear barbs above series of 15 projecting barbs; the whole above a series of 8 opposed barbs at teh head of the tapering hollow socket.

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  Lance Point, 19th century

  Small spatulate point above series of 77 projecting barbs, the whole above a tapering hollow socket.

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  Lance Point, 19th century

  Flat point with central spine above two fins held close to shank. Shank twisted below and furnished with small projecting barbs above hollow flaring socket decorated with scaled bands. Other…

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  Lance Point, 19th century

  Long spatulate point above series of 16 projecting barbs, the whole terminating in hollow flued socket.

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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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  Coverlet Fragment (USA), late 18th–early 19th century

  Vertical-horizontal repeat of large squares broken by small geometric trellis framework and other broad bands of geometric patterning. Reversible “Summer and Winter” weave in dark blue and white.

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  Coverlet Fragment (USA), 1830s

  Section of an overshot coverlet with large squres in broad band framework; various geometrical fillings to all areas. Pattern formed by wool pattern wefts of dark blue and rosy rust…

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  Coverlet Fragment (USA), early 19th century

  Squares with various geometric fillings formed by dark blue pattern wefts on a cloth ground of undyed cotton. Reversible.