IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 110681 accession number: T.135-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 20 July 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Linen mixed band and spot motif sampler embroidered with linen thread in eyelet, satin, hem and stem stitch with needle weaving and some needle lace filling stitches. Pink and green silk is worked in eyelet, satin, cross and whipped stem stitch. All the edges are hemmed. The top part of the sampler consists of bands of small geometric repeat patterns, beneath this a white work alphabet and the bottom part is taken up by green and pink silk geometric spot motifs, hearts, the initials 'HB' and the date 1728. 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/110681 TECHNIQUES ---------- Linen mixed band and spot motif sampler embroidered with linen thread in eyelet, satin, hem and stem stitch with needle weaving and some needle lace filling stitches. Pink and green silk is worked in eyelet, satin, cross and whipped stem stitch. All the edges are hemmed. weaving TECHNIQUES ---------- embroidering CATEGORIES ------ category: embroidery DATING ------ creation date: 1728 - 1728 creation date earliest: 1728 creation date latest: 1728 culture: 18th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Unidentified DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Length units: cm value: 42.75 dimension: Width units: cm value: 24.5 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: English Samplers at the Fitzwilliam title: Samplers CITATIONS -------- English Samplers at the Fitzwilliam Fitzwilliam Museum Handbooks, Samplers Samplers --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa19/T_135_1928.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 472 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa19/T_135_1928.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 472 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa19/T_135_1928.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 472 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa19/preview_T_135_1928.jpg height: 403 pixels width: 250 pixels