Search Demo: Museum Collection

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  Sampler (Germany), early 19th century

  Twenty-seven patterns embroidered on hexagonal double-ply mesh in small squares; three squares not filled in. Mounted on red paper.

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  Sampler (Germany), early 19th century

  Eleven patterns worked on four-sided double-ply twisted mesh. Mounted on stiff green paper.

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  Sampler, 1800–1850

  Continuous web of knotted netting in about sixteen designs mounted on a long strip of stiff green paper.

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  Sampler, late 18th–early 19th century

  Rectangle of fine linen divided by chain stitch into thirty-five small squares, inside each of which a variety of drawnwork and darning methods are worked in white cotton.

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  Sampler (England), early 19th century

  Cotton embroidered with silk in showing design of a delicate ribbon-tied spray of flowers including an iris, daffodil and thorny stem of roses.

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  Sampler (Mexico), 1744

  Rectangle of rather heavy cream linen, worked in linen in rows of many embroidery stitches, drawnwork. and a few bands of floral designs. At the top right, the initials AMG…

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  Hanging, Shells IV, 1957

  Four large, white curving shell shapes are inlaid in a dark grey weft satin ground by means of interlocking tapestry. Within the shell shapes, texture and patterning are created by…

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  Hanging, The Pigeons, 1958

  Long, narrow panel of grey/white ground with three different groups of birds. Bodies of two birds and wings and feet of others are accented by brocading in white, grey, green,…

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  Hanging (Italy), 1925–28

  Rectangular hanging showing an abstracted figure of a man in profile. Border of long overlapping rectangles. Cut and stitched from wool felt in a wide range of brilliant colors, brown,…

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  Hanging (USA), 1958

  Hanging panel that is loosely woven at the top with rayon and cotton warp, and a weft of beige mohair looped around a rayon core giving a curly, looped appearance.…