Search Demo: Museum Collection

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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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  Sampler (Spain)

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  Textile (Portugal), late 19th century

  Chintz with a brilliant blue ground showing a coarse chinoiserie design in red, yellow, blue, black, brown and green. Two groups of Chinese figures in staggered repeat.

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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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  Band (Portugal), early 17th century

  Lace band in which ships alternate with mythical sea creatures. With attached border of stylized heart-shaped forms, taken from design by Parasole of 1597.