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Embroidered picture
Silk embroidered with coloured silks in satin, long and short and split stitches. Oval shape and filled with honeysuckle, sunflower and other flowers growing from a two-handled vase. On the paper backing is the following written inscription: "Mary Gittins Rayton / Oswestry near Salop/ 1794”.
Source: Guide to the Collection of Samplers & Embroideries (Cardiff: National Museum of Wales, 1939) by F. G. Payne.
Collection Area
Social & Cultural History
Item Number
36.662.1
Acquisition
Purchase
Measurements
Length
(mm): 240
Width
(mm): 210
Techniques
hand embroidered
embroidery
Material
silk (fabric)
silk (spun and twisted)
paper
Location
In store
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