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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.

  • Nightcap (France), 18th century

    Tall man’s cap of brilliant yellow silk embroidered with floral vines in silver metallic yarns. Lower edge turns up in the bicorne style.

  • Nightcap (France), ca. 1730

    Man’s nightcap with a rounded crown and turned-up brim. The fabric has a green silk satin ground with a woven pattern of flowers and arabesques in cream silk. The brim…

  • 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…

  • Nightcap (France), 18th century

    Man’s nightcap made of four panels of undyed ribbed cotton with fairly deep cuff, piped along four seams and top of cuff with blue silk; topped with silk and metallic…

  • Nightcap, 18th century

    Tall man’s nightcap with deep bicorne cuff in salmon-colored ribbed silk, brocaded with a symmetrical floral design in silver metallic yarns and blue, green, yellow, pink, and white silks.

  • Nightcap, 18th century

    Man’s cap of yellow silk taffeta made up of four panels with a deep turn-up cuff. Embroidered with symmetrical chinoiserie floral sprays in satin stitch in blue ombre silk, and…

  • 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.

  • Sampler (Germany), 19th century

    Fine stem stitch outlines two coronets, a crest, in blue. The initials W, S punched with buttonhole stitch. AK, JAV, and scrolls printed in blue. Drawn work borders.

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