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Embroidery design
Bland, Sarah, born 1810 - died 1905 - Enlarge image
Embroidery design
- Place of origin:
Great Britain (made)
- Date:
ca. 1836-1854 (made)
- Artist/Maker:
Bland, Sarah, born 1810 - died 1905 (made)
- Materials and Techniques:
Pen and ink and twentieth-century wax crayon on tracing paper
- Credit Line:
Given by Mrs D. McGregor
- Museum number:
E.372:362-1967
- Gallery location:
Prints & Drawings Study Room, level H, case 95, shelf C, box 101
Designs (12) for stylised floral motifs for embroidery by Sarah Bland (1810-1905) about 1836-1854. Four of the designs feature roses. These designs are in an album which includes Bland's collection of her own botanically accurate designs, simplified patterns from accurate botanical observation, patterns traced from magazines, commercial, printed Berlin wool work patterns, gifts of patterns, including commercial ones from friends and relatives. The designs include those for petit-point, bead-work, decoration for dresses, collars and cuffs, aprons, slippers, tablecloths and covers, cushions, bags, penwipers, initial letters, alphabets etc. In Bland's case, the gift of designs demonstrates connections between relatives of merchant and banking families and is of historical significance in bonding such families.