IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 110657 accession number: T.111-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 12 December 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Band sampler, linen, embroidered with polychrome silks, chenille and metal (purl) threads in cross, eyelet hole, double running and satin stitch. The sampler comprises 11 horizontal bands of border designs (a portion of each only has the outline worked), acorns with cup in green metal thread, heavily padded fruits, flowers with chenille centres, 'boxers', flowers, stags, an alphabet and the initials 'AM BM SM GM'. title: sampler LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts collection: J. W. L. Glaisher creditline: Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110657 TECHNIQUES ---------- Band sampler, linen, embroidered with polychrome silks, chenille and metal threads in cross, eyelet hole, Holbein and satin stitch weaving TECHNIQUES ---------- embroidering CATEGORIES ------ category: embroidery DATING ------ creation date: 1701 - 1720 creation date earliest: 1701 creation date latest: 1720 culture: 18th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Unidentified DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Length units: cm value: 35.8 dimension: Length units: in value: 14.1/8 dimension: Width units: cm value: 17.8 dimension: Width units: in value: 7 IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa22/T_111_1928_20Front.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 435 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa22/T_111_1928_20Front.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 435 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa22/T_111_1928_20Front.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 435 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa22/preview_T_111_1928_20Front.jpg height: 437 pixels width: 250 pixels