A RARE NEEDLEWORK SPOT SAMPLER

A RARE NEEDLEWORK SPOT SAMPLER

MID-17TH CENTURY AND LATER

worked with polychrome silk floss on an undyed linen ground with running, double running, cross, long armed cross, braid couching, rococo, petit point, eyelet and ladder stitches with a grapevine, an uncomplete alphabet, a stag, a panel of acorns, a bird and geometric designs, in a later glazed ebonised frame

52.7 x 21cm

Provenance

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

Literature

The Feller Needlework Collection: 1, pp.156-57 for a discussion of this sampler.