Search Demo: Museum Collection

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  Sampler (USA), 1797

  Embroidered in colored silks on a natural linen ground. A single alphabet at the top is followed by a verse: In the center, Adam and Eve are flanking a tree…

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  Sampler (England), 1774

  Register of the members of the Dundas family worked in black cross-stitch in the upper third; a large house with gardens below, flanked by flowering trees; stylized running vine border.

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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…

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  Pattern Pricking, early 20th century

  Corner pattern pricking with design drawn on green paper. The green paper is attached to cardboard and the cardboard is attached to cork.

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  Pattern Pricking, La Boule de Neige, early 20th century

  Pattern pricking with design drawn on green paper. Life size xerox of lace made from the pattern glued to one end of the pattern.

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  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…

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  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…

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  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…

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  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.