Sampler
date: label: Date
content: 1600–1650
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: "Spot" sampler with flowers, fragments of repeating pattern, a snail, a deer, a fish, and a falconer. Traces of original ink drawing can be seen on foundation. Many areas have practice stitches. Selvedge top and bottom.
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 Gertrude M. Oppenheimer
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1981-28-38
objectType: label: Type
content: embroidery & stitching
label: Type
content: Sampler
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Medium: silk and metal-wrapped silk embroidery on linen foundation Technique: embroidered in tent, half cross, chain, running, and encroaching Gobelin stitches in silk; crossed chain, plaited braid, back, ladder, and chain stitch over double ladder stitches in metal-wrapped silk; wrapping created by over ladder, wrapping over double ladder, and encroaching Gobelin stitching
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 53.3 x 35.2 cm (21 x 13 7/8 in.)