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Maker:
Unknown; production
Category:
embroidery
Name:
sampler
Other Name:
whitework sampler; category
Date:
after 1601 — before 1701
Period:
17th Century
Description:
Linen band sampler embroidered with linen thread and a small amount of coloured silk and silver metal thread in hem, double running and satin stitch; there is some cut and drawn work with needle weaving and needlepoint lace filling stitches. There is a plain selvedge at the bottom, the sides are hemmed and the top is buttonholed. The whitework sampler is divided into fifteen horizontally arranged bands with a variety of geometric and floral motifs and two pictorial sections. The wider one of these sections depicts Judith, her maid and the head of Holofernes; the other a mermaid. All the figures have silk and metal thread detailing.
Production
Place:
England
Production
Place (legacy):
England, production, country
English, nationality
Production
Note:
The sampler has possibly been cut and is there fore incomplete
Technique(s):
weaving; whole
embroidering; whole; hem, double running and satin stitch
Material(s):
linen; whole; ground and thread
silk; whole; detailing
silver metal thread; whole; detailing
Technique
Description:
Linen band sampler embroidered with linen thread and a small amount of coloured silk and silver metal thread in hem, double running and satin stitch; there is some cut and drawn work with needle weaving and needlepoint lace filling stitches. There is a plain selvedge at the bottom, the sides are hemmed and the top is buttonholed.
Dimension(s):
length, 67.5, cm
width, 13.5, cm
length, 27.3/4, in
width, 5.1/4, in
Acquisition:
bequeathed; 1938; Longman, H.A. Mrs
Acquisition Credit:
Mrs H.A Longman Bequest
Exhibition(s):
English Samplers at the Fitzwilliam. 1984-07-10 - 1984-09-14
Organiser: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Venue: Octagon Gallery
Documentation:
Humphrey, Carol. 1984. English Samplers at the Fitzwilliam.Cambridge (Cambs.): The Fitzwilliam Museump. 8
Publ. No. 22
Colby, Averil. 1964. Samplers Yesterday and Today.London: B.T. Batsford Ltd.
Accession:
Object Number: T.11-1938
(Applied Arts)
(record id: 110742; input: 2004-11-05; modified: 2012-10-04)
Permanent
Identifier:
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