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Plain Sewing Sampler
French, Ethel
(Production)
Flannel, with some cotton, worked in green silk. A plain sewing sampler showing dressmaking and mending techniques with pattern darning, buttonhold and close herringbone stitch. The initials and dated E.A.F./4th Yr 1896' worked in cross stitch.
History note: Ethel French, the donor's aunt
Given by Mrs Mary E. Line
Height: 26.5 cm
Width: 39 cm
Relative size of this object is displayed using code inspired by Good Form and Spectacle's work on the British Museum's Waddeson Bequest website and their dimension drawer. They chose a tennis ball to represent a universally sized object, from which you could envisage the size of an object.
Method of acquisition: Given
(1991-06-10)
by
Line, Mary E., Mrs
Victorian
Late 19th Century
Production date:
AD/CE 1896
: dated
The maker was the donor's aunt.
Stitching: composed of silk ( green) Fabric: Sowing:
Accession number: T.8-1991
Primary reference Number: 131111
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Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Applied Arts
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