Needlework sampler by Mary Hodson, aged 12
Linen background. Coloured cotton threads worked in cross-stitch. Alphabets, numerals and simple border patterns. Tacked onto paper backing. Inscription: 'Mary Hodson, her work Aged 12 Eccleshall ...
Needlework sampler by Mary Jones, aged 11
Sampler worked in cross-stitch on a rectangular piece of fine cream woollen fabric. Illustrated with flowers, insects and animals and two figures standing either side of a building. Worked in woollen ...
Needlework sampler by Mary Parry
From the Staffordshire County Museum Collection.
Towards the end of the 18th century, samplers taught not only sewing but also literacy in the forms of alphabets, numerals and religious texts. These ...
Needlework sampler by Mary Riley of Fulford School
Linen background. Worked in coloured wollen threads. Three edges are hemmed. Alphabets, numerals, geometric bands all within simple geometric border. Inscribed: 'mary Riley. Fulford School 1863.' ...
Needlework sampler by Matilda Ambross aged 14 years
From the Staffordshire County Museum Collection.
Towards the end of the 18th century, samplers taught not only sewing but also literacy in the forms of alphabets, numerals and religious texts. These ...
Needlework sampler by Sarah Aston, aged 11
Linen background. Worked in pink, ble and ochre woollen threads and stone cotton thread. Alphabet and numerals in cross-stitch and eyelet stitch. Inscribed: 'Sarah Aston Her Work Aged 11 1832'. Sarah ...
Needlework sampler by Sarah Bollington aged 11 years
From the Staffordshire County Museum collection.
18th and 19th century samplers and education:
By around 1720 the shape of the samplers began to change and it became much squarer, a greater variety ...
Needlework sampler by Sarah Ellen Knight
Cross stitch sampler on yellow linen. Selvedge on left side. Alphabet, numerals and verse with a simple border pattern. Maker's name: 'Sarah Ellen Knight 1853'.
Dimensions 30.5cm x 26.7cm
From ...
Needlework sampler by Sarah Heler aged 10 years
Cotton background. Coloured silk threads in cross and eyelet hole stitches. Alphabets and numerals in simple border patterns. Inscribed: 'Sarah Heler Aged 10. 1856'. From the Staffordshire County ...
Needlework sampler by Sarah Warner
Green needlework on a cream linen ground. Alphabet, numerals and poem. Maker's name: 'Sarah Warner November 29th 1823'.
From the Staffordshire County Collection
Needlework sampler Cox & Co
From the Staffordshire County Museum Collection.
Needlework sampler, by Mary Ann Price
Cross stitich sampler worked on natural canvas fabric from the Staffordshire County Museum Collection.
The samplers were worked by Mary Anne Price, at Great Haywood School between 1882 and 1884.
Plain ...
Needlework sampler, by Mary Ann Price
Cross stitich sampler worked on open canvas fabric from the Staffordshire County Museum Collection.
The samplers were worked by Mary Anne Price, at Great Haywood School between 1882 and 1884
Needlework samplers
Three alphabet samplers from the Staffordshire County Museum Collection.
Towards the end of the 18th century, samplers taught not only sewing but also literacy in the forms of alphabets, numerals and ...
Needlework samplers, by Mary Ann Price
Darning sampler worked on knitted white cotton fabric from the Staffordshire County Museum Collection.
The samplers were worked by Mary Anne Price at Great Haywood School between 1882 and 1884.
It ...
Needlework samples by Annie Clowes
Samples of repair and construction work on cotton and linen. Examples of hemming, gathering, seams,darning, patching, placket opening and vent. Some specimens have pieces of paper pinned to the fabric ...
New Year Greeting Card with Photographs by William Blake and Verse/Poetry by Designer Wm. Morris. Photography and Design by William Blake.
New Year's greeting card with photographs by William Blake and Verse/Poetry by Wm. Morris the ninteenth century designer, poet and socialist.
Along with other images in the collection, the use of this ...
New Year's Greetings Card. Photography and Design by William Blake.
New Year's Greetings Card with an industrial landscape taken in the Potteries.
Blake produced many greetings cards, which were sold in his shop at Stafford Street, Longton. The street was renamed The ...