Sampler
Miss Batten worked this sampler at Northleigh School, near Honiton in about 1910. The national school was already 40 years old by the time she put needle to canvas. Samplers were still part of the curriculum, but the working of crowns, coronets and lettering was no longer as vital for the management of household linen. Instead, the laundry could be marked with ink. Thick coloured wools on canvas were widely used for samplers by the end of the nineteenth century.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 14/1976
- Category
- Decorative Art
- Collection Class
- Textiles and equipment
- Material
- LinenWool
- Common Name
- Sampler
- Simple Name
- sampler
- Period Classification
- Victorian (1837-1901); Edwardian (1901-1914)
- Production Town
- Honiton
- Production County
- Devon
- Production Country
- United Kingdom: England
- Production Person Surname
- Batten
- Production Year High
- 1910