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Embroidery design

Bland, Sarah1831/1854

The Victoria and Albert Museum

The Victoria and Albert Museum
London, United Kingdom

Pen and ink design for a child's frock featuring leaves in a downward pointing triangle shape by Sarah Bland (1810-1905), ca. 1836. 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.

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  • Title: Embroidery design
  • Creator: Bland, Sarah
  • Date Created: 1831/1854
  • Location: Great Britain
  • Physical Dimensions: Height: 20.4 cm, Width: 25.2 cm
  • Provenance: Given by Mrs D. McGregor
  • Medium: Pen and ink
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