IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 110884 accession number: T.19-1940 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 20 July 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Sampler, cotton, embroidered with polychrome wools and silks, with a little silver metal thread in cross, Florentine, satin, back and tent stitch with some couched work. The sampler is partially backed and the edges are bound in pale blue silk. The sampler comprises detached motifs of geometric floral and all-over patterns. title: sampler LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Miss Grace Clarke Bequest STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110884 TECHNIQUES ---------- Sampler, cotton, embroidered with polychrome wools and silks, with a little silver metal thread in cross, Florentine, satin, back and tent stitch with some couched work. The sampler is partially backed and the edges are bound in pale blue silk. weaving TECHNIQUES ---------- embroidering TECHNIQUES ---------- couching (embroidering) TECHNIQUES ---------- backing (textile) CATEGORIES ------ category: embroidery DATING ------ creation date: 1840 - 1860 creation date earliest: 1840 creation date latest: 1860 culture: 19th Century, Mid# CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Length units: in value: 72" dimension: Width units: in value: 9" EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Samplers CITATIONS -------- Sampler Exhibition in the Octagon ---