IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 110672 accession number: T.126-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Friday 17 July 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Yellow linen band sampler embroidered with polychrome silks in cross, eyelet, satin, tent, double running and stem stitch. Silver metal thread is worked in satin and stem stitch. There is a plain selvedge at the bottom; the three other edges are hemmed. The sampler is divided into eleven horizontal bands by narrow repeating border patterns. Four sections containing repeat floral border patterns. The widest section has a central panel containing the Lord's Prayer flanked by angels blowing trumpets and holding palms. The remaining section carries the inscriptions 'LOVe The Lord aND He WIll Be a FaIthFUll/Father VNto Thee/''WorldlING BeWare BetIM/es Death scurKs BehIND Th/ee aNd as She Leaves Theee/SO WIll IUdGMeNt FINd The/','IF All MaNKINd WOUld LIVe IN MUtUal LOVe ThIS/WOrld WOUld MUCh ReSeMBLe That aBOVe', 'Be YOU TO Others KINd aND TrU as Youd have/Others Be TO YOU','Wealth MaY TaKe WINGS aND RIches FlYY/aWaY BUt God Is a ROCK That Never WIl Deca',' MarY BreWItt her WOrK BeING Made 1725'. object type: Band sampler, linen, embroidered with polychrome silks in cross, eyelet, satin, tent, double running and stem stitch with some silver metal thread embroidery. The sampler is divided into eleven bands containing floral repeat patterns, the Lord's Prayer and religious verses. 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/110672 TECHNIQUES ---------- Yellow linen band sampler embroidered with polychrome silks in cross, eyelet, satin, tent, double running and stem stitch. Silver metal thread is worked in satin and stem stitch. There is a plain selvedge at the bottom; the three other edges are hemmed. weaving TECHNIQUES ---------- embroidering CATEGORIES ------ category: embroidery DATING ------ creation date: 1725 - 1725 creation date earliest: 1725 creation date latest: 1725 culture: 18th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Brewitt, Mary DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Length units: cm value: 48.25 dimension: Width units: cm value: 24 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: English Samplers at the Fitzwilliam CITATIONS -------- English Samplers at the Fitzwilliam The Cross stitch and Sampler book Samplers ---