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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  Quilt (France), early 18th century

  Small oblong quilt of white cotton with central design and all-over stylized leaf and vine pattern.

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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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  Quilt (possibly England), mid- 19th century

  Small quilt of printed cotton with the face in a foliage design of brown, green, red, and light blue. Foliage appears in irregularly curved enframements. Reverse has small scale design…

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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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  Quilt (France), mid-19th century

  Marseilles-style white quilt with elaborate floral borders with pineapple and foliage in a symmetrical arrangement. Four double-headed eagles in the center.

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  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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  Sampler (Germany), early 19th century

  Seventy-eight needlework patterns embroidered on a ground of hexagonal mesh. Mounted on stiff green paper.

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  Sampler (Germany), early 19th century

  Twenty-seven patterns embroidered on hexagonal double-ply mesh in small squares; three squares not filled in. Mounted on red paper.