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Griffiths, Elizabeth (Embroiderer)

Framed and glazed sampler, embroidered with coloured wools on linen using cross stitch. Strawberry border. Motifs arranged in bands include large representation of Ebenezer Chapel, Merthyr Tydfil. Stylized flowers in vases, trees, birds, dogs, butterflies and angels. Woolwork style motifs of memorial with urn, roses, and classical shrines; upper verse worked in blue wool: Boast not thyself of tomorrow / for / thou knowest not what a day may / Bring - forth Proverbs Chap 27th 1st Ver, lower verse in white (? faded? : Favour is deceitful and beauty is / vain but a woman that feareth / the lord she shal be praised; name, age and date of embroideress worked in pink. Elizabeth Griffiths her work in the 11th Year of her age Sep the 26st 1855.

Collection Area

Social & Cultural History

Item Number

F88.141

Historical Associations

Associated Person/Body: donor's family
Association Type: Owner
Date: 1855
Place: Merthyr Tydfil

Creation/Production

Griffiths, Elizabeth
Role: Embroiderer
Place: Merthyr Tydfil
Period: 1855

Acquisition

Donation

Measurements

Height (cm): 76
Width (cm): 64
Height (cm): 58
Width (cm): 47

Material

Linen (flax fabric)
Wool (fabric)
Wood
Glass

Location

In store-room
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