Embroidery design

Embroidery design on graph paper for slippers featuring flowers by Sarah Bland (1810-1905) about 1836-1854. There are three bunches: one on the top left with purple and yellow flowers; one below it with pink flowers and one to the right of the second bunch with blue flowers.

This design is in an album which includes Bland's collection of her own botanically accurate designs, simplified patterns from accurate botanical observation, patterns traced from magazines, commercial, printed Berlin wool work patterns, gifts of patterns, including commercial ones from friends and relatives. The designs include those for petit-point, bead-work, decoration for dresses, collars and cuffs, aprons, slippers, tablecloths and covers, cushions, bags, penwipers, initial letters, alphabets etc. In Bland's case, the gift of designs demonstrates connections between relatives of merchant and banking families and is of historical significance in bonding such families.