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Fashion plates
1814-1821
Six hand coloured early 19th century women's fashion plates published either by R.Ackermann's Repository of Arts (101 Strand, London) or La Belle Assemblee. All titled, dated and numbered: Walking d...
![Cellulose Acetate and Viscose Artificial Silk Linings [exhibit card]](https://digital.library.leeds.ac.uk/29947/1.hashomepageThumbnailVersion/669728_001.JPG)
Cellulose Acetate and Viscose Artificial Silk Linings [exhibit card]
University of Leeds (1904-)
1931
Cream museum exhibit card from the Department of Colour Chemistry, displaying 8 annotated samples of dyed cellulose acetate and viscose artificial silk. Samples are glued to apertures. Samples 1 - ...
sampler
1869
Sampler made by Emma Carey, with embroidered cross stitch and star stitch and worked in polychrome wool and silk thread. This is probably stitched by a child, as it was originally part of a collection...
sampler
Gregory, Susan
January 1850
Sampler worked in green and pink silk thread by Susan Gregory, Aged 12. The sampler is worked in three sections separated by repeat pattern cross stitch borders and includes, alphabet, numerals, ins...
alms bag sampler
Pesel, Louisa F (1947)
1931-1947
Partly worked embroidery model for an alms bag. Showing a geometric border pattern and a central knot design. Worked mostly in cross stitch.
![Kneeler or cushion [model for] [canvaswork sample]](https://digital.library.leeds.ac.uk/29953/1.hashomepageThumbnailVersion/669741_001.JPG)
Kneeler or cushion [model for] [canvaswork sample]
Pesel, Louisa F (1947)
1931-1938
Counte woolwork sample worked as a model for a kneeler or cushion in Winchester Cathedral. It is referenced as Series 3, number 66. The work is in red, blues and greens wool, depicting a hexagon and ...
Wessex Stitchery piece
Foster, Margaret M (1843-1936)
early 20th Century
This piece of embroidery is labelled as Wessex stitching panel. Wessex stitching was the name given by the embroiderer Mrs M Foster to her own style of work. Examples vary in style, but this particul...