Search Demo: Museum Collection

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  Sampler, 1800

  Long white linen towel embroidered in red and blue with prayers for Rosh Hoshonna and other holidays, and the order of Seder in squares. In Hebrew. Kiddush for Rosh Hashonah…

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  Sampler (USA), ca. 1800

  Small square sampler embroidered in pale silks on a natural linen ground. The central image is of a church with a steeple on a hill, with a tree, two girls,…

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  Sampler (England), 1798

  Finely worked in colored silks on a natural ground, with verses, flowering trees, animals, and a stylized running vine border.

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  Sampler (England), possibly 1799

  Verses worked in fine black cross-stitch on a natural linen ground, with a bouquet of flowers; stylized running vine borders.

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  Sampler (England), August 8, 1837

  Text in black stitching on a natural linen ground. Made at the Cheltenham Female Orphan Asylum.

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  Sampler (England), 1846

  Small sampler with decorative buttonholes worked in white on a white ground, with the inscription and date in red at center.

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  Sampler (USA), May 28, 1800

  Embroidered entirely in black on a white ground. Bands of alphabets and verses, and an inscription, are separated by floral cross borders. Isolated motifs of trees, urns of flowers, and…

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  Sampler (England), ca. 1800

  Dainty rows of soldiers and ladies holding fans, a large bird perched on a stump, and barnyard fowl, embroidered in colored silks on a white ground.

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  Sampler (Germany), 1817

  Small sampler with four columns of decorative buttonholes worked in white on a white ground; red coat of arms at center top and red date at center bottom.

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  Sampler (England), 1742

  Alphabets and numerals with horizontal geometric borders, and at the bottom a hillock with trees and deer; stylized running vine border.