Artist: Powell, Mary, maker; Date(s): 1789; Classification(s): embroidery, sampler, weaving, Linen darning sampler worked with polychrome silks and white linen thread in counted thread patterns or damask darning and cross-stitch.; Acquisition: bequeathed by Longman, H.A. Mrs, 1938, Mrs H.A. Longman Bequest [T.41-1938]
Description: Linen darning sampler worked with polychrome silks and white linen thread in counted thread patterns or damask darning and cross-stitch. There are two plain linen and eleven two-coloured darning examples arranged on the sampler. The central square of each has been cut away and filled with a darning pattern; the stitching is extended into the bordering linen. The central darn is worked in linen thread and surrounded by the inscription 'Mary powell/Finish'd this/Darning Piece/Octr the 26 1789'.
