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Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales
Unfinished sampler, about 1795. Cross-stitch embroidery in black silk thread on a fine wool canvas ground fabric.
Seven alphabet sequences in capital letters, getting progressively smaller, three number sequences 1-10, 1-9 and 1-12, and one alphabet in lower case letters. Third row from bottom is neither alphabet nor number sequence but combination of different joined-up letters. Seventeen different, semi-circular, stylised floral designs along sides and top edge. Beginnings (2 rows) of a further design along bottom edge. Side edges are selvages (marked by two blue stripes, each consisting of two picks). Top and bottom edges have a narrow (0.5cm) turn-back held with very small overcast stitches.
