Costume and Textile Collections Samplers

Costume and Textile Collections

Samplers

Unframed Sampler made by Jane Tooth and dated 1827. Linen with silk cross stitched embroidery. Decorated with wide flower border alphabet bird and flower motifs around a central poem entitled Modesty.

Detail of Jane Tooth's sampler

Detail of Jane Tooth's attribution

Embroidery sampler by E. Stott Reeves aged 9 1860

BWRAB 1978/2

Sampler of alphabet and numerals

BWRAB : 1975/27

Sampler showing child in rural landscape dated 1859

BWRAB : 1972/2

Embroidery samples from a school in Lancashire ca. 1844

BWRAB : 1974/5

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