Sampler
date: label: Date
content: 1660
name: label: Embroiderer
content: Elizabeth Sexton
notes: label: Description
content: A band sampler worked on linen in a variety of stiches in colored silk with decorative rows of flowers, including roses, carnations, acorns, and strawberries. The year 1660 in which Elizabeth Sexton embroidered her sampler, found England in a state of great excitement. Parliament had invited the exiled Charles II to return to England where a year later he was crowned King. The spreading loyalty for Charles and the desire for the restoration of the monarchy is revealed in this embroidery by the careful choice of the oak tree motif, the stately house, and rows of acorns.
place: label: made in
content: England
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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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: 2022-40-25
objectType: label: Type
content: embroidery & stitching
label: Type
content: Sampler
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Medium: silk, linen Technique: embroidered with brick, buttonhole, couching, double running, eyelet, long-armed cross, running, and satin stitches on plain weave Label: Brick, buttonhole, couching, double running, eyelet, long-armed cross, running, and satin stitches in silk on linen plain weave
label: Dimensions
content: H x W (object): 48.3 × 18.4 cm (19 in. × 7 1/4 in.)