Sampler
date: label: Date
content: early 19th century
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Several bands of withdrawn element work including several bands of Aztec stitch. At the bottom, a series of vegetal and animal motifs including a monkey dancing on a tree. Inscription: "Cuando se un gusto una los maneja" with objects between words, perhaps in the form of a rebus or pictogram.
place: label: made in
content: Mexico
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Textiles Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Anonymous Donor from the Fraser/Martin Collection
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1976-100-22
objectType: label: Type
content: embroidery & stitching
label: Type
content: Sampler
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Medium: silk and linen on linen Technique: cross, long-armed cross, double running, stem, "aztec" and deflected element work on plain weave foundation; counted stitches; hemmed at bottom and top; cut edge at right
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 74.9 x 35.6 cm (29 1/2 x 14 in.)