1841
Sampler
An italian sampler depicting a landscape and numbers and two alphabets; polychromatic. Size: 15" x 21.5" with one repeat fiber: cotton or flax, silk yarn: spun single, and filamentous single fabric: plain weave with the contemporary name of muslin color application: through fiber and yarn dyes; black dye has deteriorated some of the yarns; this dye probably made of lamp soot, solutions of sulphate iron which often faded and rotted the fiber design: applied through the use of embroidery stitches ( not solid), surface stitching (cross) and drawn thread stitches (hem, antique or handkerchief) this fabric was a sampler; the upper section had rows of geometric shapes, stylized trees, anuimals and pottery; the middle section had an alphabet, numbers 1-20 , a larger alphabet, and wording that gave the date of the sampler, 1841;' the lower section was a kind of landscape depicting trees, flowers, a duck, bird, girl with a dog, a ship and cottage; the alphabets were similar to those seen in english samplers; the house and horizontal line, to those in italian (florence) pieces; this was probably embroidery by an individual learning stitchery; mountdd; fair condition: much fading and staining; many embroidery threads are disintegrating; purchased in gibraltar,s pain, in 1935
Provenance:
Gard, nellie
Construction Label:
Embroidery
1933T 1841.99
An italian sampler depicting a landscape and numbers and two alphabets; polychromatic. Size: 15" x 21.5" with one repeat fiber: cotton or flax, silk yarn: spun single, and filamentous single fabric: plain weave with the contemporary name of muslin color application: through fiber and yarn dyes; black dye has deteriorated some of the yarns; this dye probably made of lamp soot, solutions of sulphate iron which often faded and rotted the fiber design: applied through the use of embroidery stitches ( not solid), surface stitching (cross) and drawn thread stitches (hem, antique or handkerchief) this fabric was a sampler; the upper section had rows of geometric shapes, stylized trees, anuimals and pottery; the middle section had an alphabet, numbers 1-20 , a larger alphabet, and wording that gave the date of the sampler, 1841;' the lower section was a kind of landscape depicting trees, flowers, a duck, bird, girl with a dog, a ship and cottage; the alphabets were similar to those seen in english samplers; the house and horizontal line, to those in italian (florence) pieces; this was probably embroidery by an individual learning stitchery; mountdd; fair condition: much fading and staining; many embroidery threads are disintegrating; purchased in gibraltar,s pain, in 1935
Provenance:
Gard, nellie
Construction Label:
Embroidery
1933T 1841.99