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Sampler
- Place of origin:
Italy (made)
- Date:
1600-1650 (made)
- Artist/Maker:
Unknown
- Materials and Techniques:
Linen, embroidered with linen, with cutwork, drawn thread work and buttonholed bars
- Credit Line:
Given by Margaret Simeon
- Museum number:
T.126-1992
- Gallery location:
Textiles, room 100 (part store), case I, shelf 60
In their earliest form, samplers were put together as personal reference works for embroiderers. They were trials of patterns and stitches that had been copied from others, and records of particular effects achieved that could be recreated again. They would have been the work, not of children, but of more experienced embroiderers, and, to judge from the quality of this unfinished example, of professionals too.
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