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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  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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  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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  Runner (USA), 1926

  Long runner with Roman stripes in gray, pink, blue, green and cream.

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  Runner (USA), 1928

  Finely woven runner in a Bronson weave with the reverse used as the right side.

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  Runner (USA), 1929

  Light gray runner with Italian hemstitching on four sides.

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  Runner (USA), ca. 1928

  Blue runner with pink, orange, turquoise, and peacock blue inlays in geometrical forms up the long sides. Grouped horizontal pencil stripes in the same colors. Orange along the edges.

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  Runner (USA), 1928

  Runner with highly stylized classical landscape suggested at each end in geometrical inlays of pale green, deep blue, pinkish gray heavy silk flosses. Ground of mauve wefts on pinkish tan…

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  Runner (USA), 1925

  Runner with gray and gray-pink warp and weft of various shades of pink grouped and scattered across the ground.