Sampler
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1650
name: label: Embroiderer
content: Unknown
notes: label: Description
content: Long narrow band sampler with rows of geometrical designs, scrolling floral vines and berries, and knots on the bottom half. Upper section has a variety of densely worked spot motifs such trees, flowers, and berries as well as geometrical patterns in multicolored shades and white-on-white embroidery. Upper left-hand corner has geometrical bands of openwork.
place: label: made in
content: England
setName: label: See more items in
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
label: See more items in
content: Textiles Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Bequest of Marsha Carson
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 2022-40-4
objectType: label: Type
content: embroidery & stitching
label: Type
content: Sampler
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Medium: linen, silk Technique: embroidered, withdrawn element work with needle made filling stitches
label: Dimensions
content: H x W (object): 90.5 × 18.7 cm (35 5/8 × 7 3/8 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: H x W (framed): 107.1 × 37.3 × 3.2 cm (42 3/16 × 14 11/16 × 1 1/4 in.)