A REGENCY NEEDLEWORK DARNING SAMPLER

A REGENCY NEEDLEWORK DARNING SAMPLER

BY SARAH HATCH, PROBABLY NORWICH, DATED '1811'

worked in fine silk on a linen ground, with a central basket of flowers, with a ribbon tied oak leaf and acorn wreath and with blocks of four darns to either side and a central example, signed and dated 'Sarah Hatch 1811', in a glazed ebonised wood frame

41.8 x 37.4cm

Provenance

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

Literature

The Feller Needlework Collection: 2, p.73 for a discussion of a similar darning sampler.

Catalogue Note

Sarah Hatch was born in 1797 in Norwich. Married John Cook (1798-1862). John Cook was a tallow merchant and candle manufacturer.