Where to Find Some Double-Running Stitch Embroidery Patterns from a 16th Century Italian Sampler

This Embroidered Sampler (Accession Number 20.186.366), circa 1600, is at the Met (Metropolitan Museum of Art). It features silk embroidery done in a double-running stitch, as well as white cutwork, on a linen foundation. When originally looking at this sampler, a few mistakes were found. Also, even though some of the thread is now missing, the holes in the fabric are still present for the embroidery patterns to be recreated. 

 

Thanks to the Met’s website, the sampler can be enhanced enough to see that the stitches were done on every 5th hole of the linen fabric.

 

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16th to 18th Century Double-Running Stitch Embroidery Patterns