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

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Sampler