- Date
- 1912 â 1916
- Material
- fibre
- Catalogue Number
- 104.20.0759
- Description
- A small, square piece of muslin embroidered with flower basket and initials "RR". Small cross stitched flower basket at centre holding pink flowers is framed by a square of light blue. Initials cross stitched below square in 3.0 cm white border. Edged with crudely worked blanket stitch.
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- Title
- Coaster
- Date
- 1912 â 1916
- Material
- fibre
- Dimensions
- 9.2 x 9.4 cm
- Description
- A small, square piece of muslin embroidered with flower basket and initials "RR". Small cross stitched flower basket at centre holding pink flowers is framed by a square of light blue. Initials cross stitched below square in 3.0 cm white border. Edged with crudely worked blanket stitch.
- Subject
- households
- craft
- CR
- Russell Robb
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 104.20.0759
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Cross Stitch Sampler
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- Date
- 1913
- Material
- hair; fibre
- Catalogue Number
- 107.02.0024
- Description
- A rectangular piece of commercially woven needlepoint canvas with sampler design worked in wool slightly off centre and closer to the top. Background fabric natural ecru colour with rectangular sampler bordered in blue with light blue fret pattern edging. Alphabet of capital letters worked at the tâĤ
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- Title
- Cross Stitch Sampler
- Date
- 1913
- Material
- hair; fibre
- Dimensions
- 23.0 x 30.4 cm
- Description
- A rectangular piece of commercially woven needlepoint canvas with sampler design worked in wool slightly off centre and closer to the top. Background fabric natural ecru colour with rectangular sampler bordered in blue with light blue fret pattern edging. Alphabet of capital letters worked at the top in tan colour with cross stitch, with a cross stitched dog filling the space left at the end of the alphabet, then a row of blue cross stitching divides the numerals from 1 through 9 to 0 in light green, ending with the date "1913", then a blue line followed by "Catharine Robb", in pink, "her sampler, aged 7", in light green. Followed by a blue line with a small looped garland of pink flowers hanging from it, and a picture below carefully worked in needlepoint of a basket of flowers at the centre and a tree in pink flowerpot on either side.
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 107.02.0024
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