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Sampler worked with beads and wool with spot motifs including the Crucifixion, the Instruments of Passion and the Lamb of God.
Linen canvas sampler with a cotton patch, mounted on board. The piece is worked with coloured beads with some later woollen cross-stitch. The edges are bound with silver braid. This sampler is unfinished but most of the spot motifs are in place; many of them are religious including the Crucifixion, the Instruments of Passion and the Lamb of God. Other motifs found on this piece are flower baskets, a version of the temple of Solomon, a wreath, a cockerel and pierced hearts. The inscription 'amitie' is worked in beads inside the roof of the temple. Where the bead background is unfinished, an odd patch has been inserted and some crude woollens cross stitch worked close to the narrow beadwork edge.
Bequeathed by Miss Grace Clarke
Length: 33.25 cm
Length: 13.3/8 in
Width: 25.25 cm
Width: 10.1/8 in
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1940-05) by Clarke, Grace F., Miss
19th Century
After
1801
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Before
1901
beads
Glass
braid
Silver thread
ground
Cotton
ground
Linen
thread
Wool
Weaving
: Linen canvas sampler with a cotton patch, mounted on board. The piece is worked with coloured beads with some later woollen cross-stitch. The edges are bound with silver braid.
Braiding
Embroidering
Accession number: T.20-1940
Primary reference Number: 110885
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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