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Darning sampler
Dutch
1773
Object Place: Holland
Medium/Technique
Cotton plain weave embroidered with silk
Dimensions
32.6 x 30.7 cm (12 13/16 x 12 1/16 in.)
Credit Line
The Elizabeth Day McCormick Collection
Accession Number43.956
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Fashion and Textiles
ClassificationsTextiles
DescriptionDarning or running stitch sampler. Cream colored cotton ground with short rectangular areas, having geometric and linear motives, intersecting to form crosses. Similar larger central motif with the initials "WS" under a crown and the date. Polychrome silk yarns. Ground stained. Stitches: cross, darning, pattern darning.
ProvenanceGift of Elizabeth Day McCormick to MFA, 1943