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Darning Sampler1799

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Embroidered textile sampler on ivory ground fabric, with a central urn-and-tree motif surrounded by a grid of small rectangular patches in varied stitch patterns, framed in powder blue
Title
Darning Sampler
Place Made
Netherlands
Date Made
1799
Medium
Linen plain weave with silk embroidery
Dimensions
Frame with hardware: 20 × 21 1/4 × 1 3/16 in. (50.8 × 53.98 × 3.02 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Mary Jaene and Jim Edmonds
Accession Number
AC1992.182.3
Classification
Textiles
Collecting Area
Costume and Textiles
Selected Bibliography
  • Edmonds, Mary Jane. Samplers & Samplermakers: An American Schoolgirl Art 1700-1850. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; New York: Rizzoli International Publications, Inc., 1991.

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