Needlepoint
Sampler
mid-17th century · Unknown
- Date
- mid-17th century
- Maker
- Unknown maker
- Place
- Unknown
- Medium
- Canvas worked with silk and metal thread; tent, cross, back, plaited braid, knots, laid work, and detached buttonhole stitches
- Craft (Needle Nook label)
- Needlepoint
- Museum
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Credit line
- Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964
Public domain. The Metropolitan Museum of Art marks this object and image as public domain (isPublicDomain: true). See the museum's open-access terms. This does not imply that the museum endorses Needle Nook.
Credit Sampler, mid-17th century. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964. Public domain. View the object on the museum site
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