A RARE CHARLES II WHITEWORK AND POLYCHROME NEEDLEWORK BAND SAMPLER

A RARE CHARLES II WHITEWORK AND POLYCHROME NEEDLEWORK BAND SAMPLER

MID- TO LATE 17TH CENTURY

worked in various stitches, including: running, satin, dove's eye, spider's web, whipped and buttonhole bars, with coloured silk floss on linen ground, the top with an alphabet and initials 'D B', worked with floral and geometric bands, in a later glazed gilt and ebonised frame

75.4 x 18.1cm

Provenance

Upper Slaughter Manor, The Collection of Micheál and Elizabeth Feller.

Literature

The Feller Needlework Collection: 1, p.185 for a discussion of this sampler.