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Maker: Powell, Mary
Linen darning sampler worked with polychrome silks and white linen thread in counted thread patterns or damask darning and cross-stitch. There are two plain linen and eleven two-coloured darning examples arranged on the sampler. The central square of each has been cut away and filled with a darning pattern; the stitching is extended into the bordering linen. The central darn is worked in linen thread and surrounded by the inscription 'Mary powell/Finish'd this/Darning Piece/Octr the 26 1789'.
Mrs H.A. Longman Bequest
Length: 41.5 cm
Length: 16.3/4 in
Width: 42 cm
Width: 16.1/4 in
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1938) by Longman, H. A., Mrs
18th Century
Production date:
AD 1789
: George III
ground and thread
Linen
polychrome
Silk
Weaving
: Linen darning sampler worked with polychrome silks and white linen thread in counted thread patterns or damask darning and cross-stitch.
Embroidering
Accession number: T.41-1938
Primary reference Number: 110772
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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