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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  Sidewall (France), 1901–06

  Rococo revival-style with very large foliage and scroll design with large cluster of roses as major motif. The match is dropped with join occurring at the center of the bouquet.…

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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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  Roundel, 868–904

  Roundel with a golden yellow ground filled by walking bird with back-turned head; in blue-green, yellow-green wools and undyed linen on linen warps. Remains of cloth ground at bottom. Warps…

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  Roundel, late 2nd–early 10th century

  Rough hexagonal medallion with striding fantastic animal suggesting combination of ostrich and rabbit, in blue, green and yellow wool and natural linen on dark red ground with a few indistinguishable…

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  Textile (France), 1950

  Central column of large bouquets of gladioli in yellow, salmon and green.

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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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  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.