Ground: cream white linen. Design: "king pattern", worked in darning stitch with reddish orange silk.

Fragment (two pieces sewed together). Ground: dark neutral purple 5/1 satin. Design: undulating vines and flying pheasants woven with gold (gilded skin wound on linen) thread, and pink and cream silk, weft, tied by fine pink silk warp. (The pattern weft go from selvedge to selvedge). 3/1 weft-faced twill pattern

Ribbon; blue silk ground with design of roses, narcissi, and jonquils brocaded with brilliant green, reddish-orange, dark red, yellow, and white; somewhat worn from being tied in several places.

The design consists of a repetition of crudely drawn flower forms growing from a flower and leaf form which is substituted for the usual pot; the ground is a heavy mesh called "Fond Double", Fond Chant", etc.

Gold ground, the design of symmetrically arranged bunches of flowers, etc., is woven with brown, red, reddish violet, blue, green, and greenish yellow silk, and silver cord.  Pieced.

Three female and four men figures, and a dog in the foreground in a wooded setting. In the center right a sitted woman sings from a music book while another woman behind her plays an instrument. Two other standing men at her right play music. In the center left, a woman is holding a jar on her head while looking at a standing man with a dog. In the background, a fountain and a road. The border is composed of a continuous floral motif.

Embroidered picture, formed of panels from casket, English, 17th Century.

An elaborate symmetrical design of conventionalized fruit and flowers woven with gold and silver thread, and outlines of pink, green and neutral violet silk.

Loosely woven pale yellow-green silk tabby ground. Main area shows self stripes. Rows of tiny yellow and violet sprigs along selvedges. Tiny paired loops along outer edge of selvedges.Traces of glue in the corners.

Sampler with verse "Sweet labourer midst the Summer's golden hour..." with floral wreath in center enclosing inscription, "Eliza Evans aged 12 years" and with floral border flanked by two verses; worked in cross and back stitches.

Ground: cream-white cotton. Design: printed from wood blocks with red, violet, neutral yellow, and dark neutral violet lines and accents; border of urns containing piles of fruit, birds, and butterflies.

Fragment of border, including corner, made up of three pieces put together. Ground: coarse white cotton or linen. Design: solid band of conventionalized floral forms in laid stitches worked with brilliant, red orange, green, yellow and black silk. On each side a narrow band of drawn-work, outer edge finished with red and yellow button hole stitch.

White linen; design woven in blue cotton.

Small perfume bottle, flattened, almost circular shape. Clear glass with gilt metal cap, both covered with strung glass beads (called sablé) held together with looping stitches. White ground with lady seated by tree on one side, balloon over landscape on other side, Good Condition.

White linen corded bed cover with cotton back. The corded or quilted pattern was probably made with linen thread. The pattern includes a scattered floral arrangement with various flowers, leaves and stalks filling the field, and a cornucopia at each corner. The white cotton fringe attached on one end is probably original. Minor stains; ground slightly worn in spots.

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