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  • Sampler (USA), 1831

    A large house with trees, flowers, birds, butterflies and a verse: This work in hand my friends may have When I am dead and in my grave And when my…

  • Sampler (USA), 1818

    In the center, a floral wreath contains the inscription: Rebecca Barnes 5th Mo 23 1818 Symmetrically arranged motifs of flowers and birds fill the field; there is one alphabet at…

  • Sampler (possibly Sweden), 1702

    Alphabets and letters at the top divided by an embroidered band with traditional scattered motifs including; Adam and Eve and the tree of knowledge; crowned initials; urns with flowers, a…

  • Sampler (USA), 1780–89

    Three alphabets, two upper case and one lower case, all without the letter “J”, ampersand, numerals and assorted trial letters, and the inscription: Love Bickford her sampler wrought in the…

  • Poster, 10th Anniversary, Shakespeare Festival of Dallas, 1981

    Poster depicts close-up abstract portrait of Shakespeare wearing a blue-gray beard and green collar, before a partial cake with 10 lit candles. Below, text in yellow on gray ground: 10TH…

  • Fragments (France), mid-18th century

    Twined ribbons supporting bunches of flowers on a ribbed “flushing” warp background.

  • Fragments (England), 1700–1750

    Fragments show curling ribbons patterned with flowers supporting large bunches of flowers in bright colors and gold on a background of tiny white dots and widely spaced gold blossoms.

  • Fragments (France), 1730s

    Vertically symmetrical pattern of the “lace” type on a rust-red background.

  • Sampler, 2015

    Black silk substrate marked into nine sections by lines of running stitch in red polyester thread. Each section has different abstract pattern motif embroidered in white cotton thread.

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