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Embroidery & stitching
Sampler

Sampler

Sampler

1800

Medium: Medium: silk, cotton, linen Technique: satin stitch embroidery with withdrawn element work
Genre: Embroidery & stitching
Museum: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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embroidery & stitching

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Embroidered sampler has a deep floral vine border in colored silks. Rectangular openwork design of a double headed eagle flanked by bulls. Initials BJP incorporated into eagle motif. Just above are squares of openwork with a variety of needle made filling stitches. Rectangle on the right has an openwork treatment for an alphabet.

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Piece XLIX

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