A VICTORIAN LONG NEEDLEWORK SPOT SAMPLER

A VICTORIAN LONG NEEDLEWORK SPOT SAMPLER

PROBABLY 1884

in the style of Berlin woolwork, worked in polychrome wool on cotton ground, with various techniques and stitches, including: cross, petit point, darning and tent, decorated with diverse motifs, some geometrical, some individual, including: a dog, a nibbling rabbit, lovehearts and a basket of flowers, and with the number '84' twice, in a later glazed ebonised frame

88.5 x 15.2cm

Provenance

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

Literature

The Feller Needlework Collection: 2, p.102 for a discussion of this sampler.