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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,…

  • Sidewall (Sweden), ca. 1940

    Design of overlapping fern leaves in silver and white on gray ground.

  • Sampler (England), 17th century

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

  • Embroidery, late 18th century

    Cream-colored cotton (possibly from a curtain or skirt) with detached floral motives worked in chain stitch. Flowers small garden varieties in clusters 3″ to 4″ long; arranged in staggered rows.…

  • Embroidery (Greece), late 19th century

    Horizonal panel with deep border embroidered in row of large flowering wreaths in blues, blue-greens, shades of rust; touches of white, black and yellow whithin the guard strips; similar wreath…

  • Sidewall (Sweden), ca. 1950

    Horizontal rows of white and red squares in outline, overlapping in such a way as to give an interlocked appearance. Small figures on blue-gray ground.

  • Sidewall (Sweden), 1949–50

    Freely drawn white squares and dark green horizontal lines in nine vertical drop-repeating columns, on pale green ground.

  • Sidewall (Sweden), ca. 1948–50

    Horizontal rows of geometrical, non-representational figures outlined in dark brown. Small figures, on blue-gray ground.

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