Darning Sampler (Germany)
Twelve squares of darning samples within an embroidered border.
Rectangular darning sampler with fifteen darning crosses and two corner mends, with picot edgings and hemstitching. In the center square, where the foundation fabric has been cut away and replaced, the inscription GD 1711, surmounted by a crown, is embroidered in red cross stitch.
Come stitch with me, peeps! Showing two pattern darning samplers to get us started on our darning sampler - Sampler #3 of my Year of Samplers! On the blog, yo.
Twelve squares of pattern darning in red, white, and blue.
Darning Sampler is an upholstery textile that is part of Maharam's collection.
Embroidered linen darning sampler made in Enkhuisen, a small village north of Amsterdam, in 1799
Makes, remakes, mends, darns, sews, arts, and crafts.
This sampler is from the Mamluk period in Egypt, 1250-1517C.E. The sampler was found in a cemetery in Fustat. The size is 22 x 16 cm, sewn out of three separate pieces of linen, embroidered in two different shades of blue cotton. The joining was done in flax. The sampler is currently in the Ashmolean.…
Signature: Inscribed: SB [for the supervisor]; TK [for the seamstress, Treijntje]; WVDK [for Treijntje's deceased father, Wiebe van der Kamp]; EM [for Treijntje's deceased mother, Emerentia Metkamp]; AH IHVV WMK IV/ AI MEU HVM CDR/ DK IH/ TVDK KVDK IB/ [probably for other family members and supervisors]Dated: AN NO/1797
Darning Sampler is an upholstery textile that is part of Maharam's collection.
A few years ago, it was simple: if you had a hole in your t-shirt, jeans or socks, you simply threw them away! Or at least, many did. But there was, and is still, a movement to artistically mend or repair them–to make a feature and statement about a darned, patched or laced tear or hole. What would people have thought
darning sampler from Huber
When we talk about sustainability, why don’t we talk about mending?The Netherlands-based Platform 21=Repairing project and its offshoot, Repair Cafés, do just that. Platform 21=Repairing published a manifesto extolling the benefits of mending, and the Repair Cafés bring together skilled tinkerers and those with items in need of repair together in a free social space over tea and coffee.
Five darning crosses, four darning corners, central patch. Initials along outer edge, date in center.
Posted: 2018-01-19 Door mijn gedaan; Done by me …in one century, about 120 Middelburg girls taught by more than twenty teachers Updated January 2018 year teachers, girls collection** 1715 (see picture) PK1719 Maria Kuypers, Elisabeth Mare1719 Maria Kuypers, Pieternella Trat1723 Maria Kuypers, Lena Henderik Zeeuws Museum, Middelburg1730 Maria Marinisse, Adriana Kakelaar1730 Maria Marinisse, Catharina Stierman1731 Sara Rodijn, Elisab. Wesselinck Museum voor Heem-en Oudheidkunde, Kontich Belgie1737 Sara Rodijn, HvD Zeeuws Museum, Middelburg1738 Sara Rodijn, PvH1742 ...
Embroidered darning sampler | British | The Met
