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Sampler

Unknown Maker

While linen worked in multicolored silk, now faded, in a design of flowers, animals, people, architectural motifs, numerals and alphabet.

Credit: Gift of Herman A. Elsberg on the Fortieth Anniversary of the Museum

1800
Medium: silk on linen Technique: embroidered
1937-63-2
Image and text © Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, 2020

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