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needlework samplers
Smith, Mary - Miss Smith's School, Woodhouse Hall'
19th Century
A board mounted with gathered cuff with button, buttonhole and embroidery. The piece demonstrates techniques including feather-stitching, patching and pleating. The initial 'M', most likely referring ...
mounted needlework and knitting samplers
Plows, Annie
19th Century
Five samples and needlework including one knitted sample with seam and a sampler fragment, featuring cross-stitch lettering which is repeated in a completed sampler by the same maker (ITC 2013.12). Th...
fragment
mid 16th-mid 17th Century
A brocatelle with a twill weave green and yellow selvedge. The design has a red silk warp and yellow silk and linen weft. Much of the yellow silk has worn away. There are signs of stitched and line...
Certificate for the Advancement of Plain Needlework
London Institute for the Advancement of Plain Needlework
1908
Certificate for the Advancement of Plain Needlework. Awarded by the London Institute for the Advancement of Plain Needlework to Jessie M. Johnstone for plain needlework, patching and darning, knitting...
batik fabric
20th Century
This batik is a variation on the Javanese tampal/tambal, or patchwork design. The field is split into shapes, each filled by an individual pattern. It has been suggested that the pattern has its ori...
mounted needlework samplers
Langley, Joyce - Department of Education
1943
A portfolio of Needlework Specimens by Joyce Langley produced for an Education Diploma Course at the Department of Education, 1943-4.
fragment
18th Century
A dress weight fabric with a simple weave ground and brocaded pattern of very small sprigs alternating with larger sprays of stylized flowers. At intervals of 1cm there are three rows of white metal s...
mounted needlework and knitting samplers
Plows, Annie
19th Century
Five samples demonstrating various needlework techniques. These include: one example of darning, one of knitting, one seam, one patching and one hand-stitched insert with seam. The patchwork sample fe...
batik Magelang
early 21st century
A batik cap in black (indigo) with an all over design of white stylised flower and leaf designs and stupa dome motifs, incorporating red, green and turquoise. Tendrils create a criss-cross design. The...
embroidered panel
19th Century
This item is embroidered along the longer edge with a border pattern of geometric stylised plant motifs. A 3cm wide geometric border frames the pattern at the bottom and the two sides. The embroider...
Dutch wax type print
mid 20th Century
A strip of resist-dyed cotton in the "Dutch wax technique", which is machine hemmed on both ends. The central design is a foliate pattern in dark blue and green against a lighter blue ground, with pat...
printed cloth
H. Adam Wholesalers
late 20th Century
A cotton cloth with a large design of symetrical great crested cranes (or grey crowned crowns) feeding, repeated in four rows, with a combed design border. The name of H. Adam, wholesalers, is printe...