Search Demo: Museum Collection

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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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  Tape (Burma), 1900–1957

  Geometrical ornament and inscription in the Pali language in red and cream. narrow saffron yellow edges or selvedges. Warp fringe (33cm) at one end.

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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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  Sampler (Spain)

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  Sampler (Germany), 19th century

  Gothic alphabet, Maltese cross, and the initials FL embroidered in red on a white ground.

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  Sampler (Mexico), early 19th century

  Oblong sampler of cream linen embroidered in colored silks in various detached motifs: angel, flowers, a shepherd with lamb, house, birds and other animals, and a floral border. On the…

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  Sampler (Austria), ca. 1900

  Narrow knitting sampler showing bands of different patterns.

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  Sampler (Mexico), early 19th century

  Oblong panel of unbleached linen worked in white linen and colored silks probably as a sampler. At top parts of vine design worked in white; at bottom borders of flowers…