Sampler

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Status

Currently Off View

Department

Textiles

Title

Sampler

Place

Mexico (Object made in)

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Made 1870

Medium

Linen, plain weave; drawn work embroidered with linen, silk, and gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk in back, cross, darning, double running, hem interlocking lace, overcast, and Russian overcast stitches; embroidered with silk in Algerian eye, antique hem, back cross, double running, running, and satin stitches

Dimensions

41.3 × 41.9 cm (16 1/4 × 16 1/2 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of the Needlework and Textile Guild

Reference Number

1983.184

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