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Table Cloth

1949 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Machine-embroidered sampler and table cloth, and two sketches. Design of a jug and a trailing border of leaves. Part of the Kessell experiment (1949) of embroidery interpretations carried out by teachers and students from colleges of art.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Parts
This object consists of 4 parts.

  • Sketch
  • Sketch
  • Sampler
  • Table Cover
Materials and techniques
Machine-embroidered
Brief description
Embroidered sampler, table cloth and two sketches, designed by Mary Kessell, sampler embroidered by Lilian Willey and table cloth by Frances Beal, Great Britain, 1949
Physical description
Machine-embroidered sampler and table cloth, and two sketches. Design of a jug and a trailing border of leaves. Part of the Kessell experiment (1949) of embroidery interpretations carried out by teachers and students from colleges of art.
Credit line
Given by the Needlework Development Scheme
Production
NDS 2376
Collection
Accession number
CIRC.322 to C-1962

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Record createdJune 24, 2009
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