Aberdeen - 54 | Wellington County Museum & Archives

1947.8.1 - Artwork Embroidery Needlework Sampler

Linen sampler with wool and linen thread. Neutral background. The colours of the thread are mainly red and green. Buff, gray, black, ochre, purple and various shades of red are also used. There is a border on all four sides in cross stitch. Then the alphabet in upper case and numbers 1 to 6 in cross stitch. Next is a cross stitch border. The next row has numbers 7 to 29 in cross stitch. Then a cross stitch pattern. Then the alphabet in lower case...

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1947.8.2 - Embroidery Needlework Sampler

Linen sampler with wool and linen thread. Neutral background. The colours of the thread are mainly red and green, as well as pink, gray, tan and black. Background is a tabby (plain weave). The warp is 32 threads/inch, the weft is 26 threads/inch. Hand embroidered using cross stitch, algerian eye stitch, back stitch, button hole stitch and raised satin stitch. There is a border on all four sides of a repeated flower motif in cross stitch. Alphabet...

Record Type: Object

1966.3.5 - Tablecloth Neckerchief

A rust-coloured silk tablecloth or neckerchief with a border. A floral design of beige-gold and black. A very thin black line around each side of the border. Early machine or hand resisted, as the pattern colouring is not regular.

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1986.34.73.02 - Block, Printer's Plate, Printing

A printing plate (.02) of an image of the original model of Bell's reaper, which was been presented by the Misses Bell to the University of Aberdeen. The plate was stored in an envelope (.01) with the printed images on the front (moved to Archives and renumbered ph 24691_73).

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2015.30.1.02 - Embroidery Needlework Sampler

Embroidered sampler (.01) framed in a wooden frame (.02). The sampler is embroidered with blue, green, light brown, dark brown, red, and white wool thread on linen. It has a floral border. The embroidery is organized into rows, beginning with rows of block alphabet letters followed by numbers one through ten, followed by block letter initials of family members, followed by larger block alphabet letters in two styles, followed by a design with hea...

Record Type: Object