A WHITEWORK NEEDLEWORK BAND SAMPLER

A WHITEWORK NEEDLEWORK BAND SAMPLER

MID-17TH CENTURY

worked with various stitches, including: satin, picot, detached buttonhole and needlewoven bar, on an undyed linen ground, with geometric designs, flowers, leaves and a figure, in a later glazed ebonised frame

70.7 x 10cm

Provenance

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

Literature

The Feller Needlework Collection: 1, p.169 for a discussion on this whitework sampler.