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- Date
- 1906 – 1908
- Material
- fibre, cotton
- Catalogue Number
- 102.01.0017
- Description
- Fine cotton bedspread with ruffle around edge. Made for use in pram and hand-embroidered with white cotton. Bedpread has two small holes near one corner and one small stain on an edge.
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- Title
- Bedspread
- Date
- 1906 – 1908
- Material
- fibre, cotton
- Dimensions
- 80.0 x 80.0 cm
- Description
- Fine cotton bedspread with ruffle around edge. Made for use in pram and hand-embroidered with white cotton. Bedpread has two small holes near one corner and one small stain on an edge.
- Subject
- households
- furnishings
- crafts
- children
- Credit
- Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 102.01.0017
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- Date
- 1890 – 1910
- Material
- fibre
- Catalogue Number
- 102.04.1047
- Description
- Centre piece 47.0 square, 2.5 of solid material around the outside, inside of square is of pulled thread work with French knot embroidery. Outside of square are 8.5 gathered strips hemstitched around the edges, edge is 73.0 long and 8.5 wide. All very fine hand work.
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- Title
- Cushion Cover
- Date
- 1890 – 1910
- Material
- fibre
- Dimensions
- 63.0 cm
- Description
- Centre piece 47.0 square, 2.5 of solid material around the outside, inside of square is of pulled thread work with French knot embroidery. Outside of square are 8.5 gathered strips hemstitched around the edges, edge is 73.0 long and 8.5 wide. All very fine hand work.
- Subject
- households
- furnishings
- hobbies
- Annie White
- Credit
- Gift of Clifford J. White, Victoria, 1994
- Catalogue Number
- 102.04.1047
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- Date
- 1870 – 1890
- Material
- fibre
- Catalogue Number
- 102.01.0023
- Description
- Japanese silk quilt for doll to sit on, backing white silk. Probably has silk batting inside, front has 4 panels ca. 11.0 wide with 3 alternating designs, grey with light brown each end, orange with orange then green with beige, 5 silk string loops sewn through quilt at 2 ends, 2 sides and middle.
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- Title
- Doll Quilt
- Date
- 1870 – 1890
- Material
- fibre
- Dimensions
- 42.0 x 42.0 cm
- Description
- Japanese silk quilt for doll to sit on, backing white silk. Probably has silk batting inside, front has 4 panels ca. 11.0 wide with 3 alternating designs, grey with light brown each end, orange with orange then green with beige, 5 silk string loops sewn through quilt at 2 ends, 2 sides and middle.
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 102.01.0023
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Embroidery Picture
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifact107.02.1008
- Date
- 1974
- Material
- fibre, wool; cotton
- Catalogue Number
- 107.02.1008
- Description
- A picture of St. Michael's Mount Cornwall, England done in needlepoint embroidery with wool and cotton stitches. The picture depicts a rocky promontory with a castellated mansion and an ancient chapel. There are buildings at the bottom of the mount done in fine cotton embroidery with what appears…
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- Title
- Embroidery Picture
- Date
- 1974
- Material
- fibre, wool; cotton
- Dimensions
- 24.5 x 33.5 cm
- Description
- A picture of St. Michael's Mount Cornwall, England done in needlepoint embroidery with wool and cotton stitches. The picture depicts a rocky promontory with a castellated mansion and an ancient chapel. There are buildings at the bottom of the mount done in fine cotton embroidery with what appears to be ships in centre right. Bottom is rocks and greenery. Cloudy sky in background.
- Credit
- Gift of Dorothy Cranstone, Banff, 1987
- Catalogue Number
- 107.02.1008
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Embroidery Sampler
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifact107.02.1007%20a-c
- Date
- 1799
- Material
- fibre; wood
- Catalogue Number
- 107.02.1007 a-c
- Description
- Traditional sampler, 4.0 wide border is a line of stitching in pyramid shapes with flower baskets. At the top of inside border is the upper case alphabet, one line of small letters, other in bigger letters and two lines. In the centre is a picture of a white house to the left, a green picket f…
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- Title
- Embroidery Sampler
- Date
- 1799
- Material
- fibre; wood
- Dimensions
- 42.0 x 42.0 cm
- Description
- Traditional sampler, 4.0 wide border is a line of stitching in pyramid shapes with flower baskets. At the top of inside border is the upper case alphabet, one line of small letters, other in bigger letters and two lines. In the centre is a picture of a white house to the left, a green picket fence, two trees and to the right a two storey brown house. Below that is six lines of writing beginning "One Weeks Extremity May Teach Us ....." "Susan Lehman her work done In the ninth year Of Her Age (__ ?) 1799" * Someone numbered the labels as (a) and (b) and the sampler as (c). It is too fragile to change
- Credit
- Gift of Charles C. Reid, Banff, Alberta, 1986
- Catalogue Number
- 107.02.1007 a-c
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Stitched Picture
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- Date
- prior to 1865
- Material
- hair, sheep; fibre; wood
- Catalogue Number
- 107.02.1004 a,b
- Description
- Framed, embroidered picture with border of taupe, green and burgundy stylized flowers ca 3.5 wide. Background colour is burgundy, centre is a stylized "Egyptian" head and shoulders framed in a circular cream background with a narrow khaki green border. Around this is a symmetrical design of four…
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- Title
- Stitched Picture
- Date
- prior to 1865
- Material
- hair, sheep; fibre; wood
- Dimensions
- 44.5 x 44.0 cm
- Description
- Framed, embroidered picture with border of taupe, green and burgundy stylized flowers ca 3.5 wide. Background colour is burgundy, centre is a stylized "Egyptian" head and shoulders framed in a circular cream background with a narrow khaki green border. Around this is a symmetrical design of four groupings of stylized flowers at sides top and bottom on beige background surrounded by a narrow khaki border. Between each of these designs are four groupings of three flowers in same style embroidered directly on burgundy background.
- Credit
- Gift of Charles C. Reid, Banff, Alberta, 1986
- Catalogue Number
- 107.02.1004 a,b
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