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Description: | Artist: Reader, Mary, maker; Date(s): 1826; Classification(s): embroidery, sampler, weaving, Woollen border sampler embroidered with polychrome silks in cross and satin stitch. There is a double blue line selvedge on both sides, the top is hemmed and the bottom was hemmed but is damaged.; Acquisition: given by Cole, Sarah, Miss, 1943, Given by Miss Sarah Cole [T.6-1943]
Description: Border sampler, wool, embroidered with polychrome silks in cross and satin stitch. A repeating floral border pattern surrounds the main body of the sampler, which includes two alphabets, two sets of numerals, detached motifs, a verse and an inscription. | Format: | text/html | License: | http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/terms.htm | Publisher: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Rights holder: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Subjects: | Reader, Mary embroidery sampler | Temporal: | name=19th century; start=1826; end=1826 | Source: | Fitzwilliam Museum | Creator: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Identifier: | http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/opacdire... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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