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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  Table Cover (Italy), late 16th–early 17th century

  Table cover edged with insertions of darned net. Insertions in multi-colored silk and metallic thread in floral serpentine.

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  Table Cover (Spain), 18th century

  Cream-colored linen table cover, with wide border designs worked in polychrome silks of pale green, yellow, pale rose, light blue, dark blue and dark green. Edged with border of dark…

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  Table Cover (Spain), 17th century

  Table cover or “paño de ofrenda” of white hand woven linen embroidered in light brown linen thread. Cutwork squares and borders are worked in white and brown thread. Traditional stylized…

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  Table Cover (Spain), 18th century

  Oblong table cover of hand-woven linen of sheer open weave, embroidered in brown and white silk in cross stitch. Allover pattern arranged in squares of highly stylized floral or lily…

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  Table Cover (Italy), late 16th–early 17th century

  Large reddish-pink table cover edged around all sides with a deeply scalloped lace in a pattern of rosettes.

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  Table Cover (Italy), 16th–17th century

  Oblong table cover of dark green silk bordered with green net in an appliqued design of foliage in reversed scrolls that terminate in lilies. Applique is natural colored linen embroidered…

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  Table Cover (Italy), 16th century

  Oblong table cover of white linen with cutwork bands across the ends in simple geometric patterns and highly stylized embroidered designs in tan and blue-green. Narrow border, half inch, of…

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  Table Cover (Italy), 18th century

  Oblong table cover with a border design in simple, geometric pattern. Trimmed with narrow pointed lace.