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German. On white silk with woven spot design. Embroidered with silk, black cotton and metal threads in cross, four-sided, running, back, fly, satin stitches, couching and French knots. Shades of brown and oragne with naive figures and sacred emblems. The stylised figures and text are similar to those on the Hungertuch (Hunger cloth) Lenten cloth also made by the Munster school in the late 1920s. This was inspired by the 1623 Hungertuch Lenten hangings in Telgte, near Munster.

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Woven screen

Woven screen with a loose check pattern with brown string and brown, cream and green thread on wooden supports. It has metal fasteners in the wooden beams at top and bottom for hanging purposes.

Lindsay, John Walter

Woven screen

Woven screen with a loose check pattern with brown string and brown, cream and green thread on wooden supports. It has metal fasteners in the wooden beams at top and bottom for hanging purposes.

Lindsay, John Walter

'Cross Stitch' fold-out booklet

Small blue card folder with the handwritten label 'Cross Stitch'. It contains a handwritten explanation of the technique and materials, the pattern design for a peacock in pen and ink on graph paper, and the worked textile in blue thread on white cloth.

Mackie, Mary

Sample of Drawn Fabric - coloured

Sample of Drawn Fabric - coloured

Embroidered pattern with different stitches in green, blue, red and pale brown silk thread on white linen. Pinned to white card. Labelled Drawn Fabric.

Mackie, Mary

Sample of Needleweaving

Sample of Needleweaving

Two patterns of needleweaving in white and red thread on white cloth. Pinned to white card. Labelled Needleweaving.

Mackie, Mary

'Canvas Work' fold-out booklet

Yellow folder labelled Canvas Work containing a handwritten explanation of the technique and the materials and a sample with nine shapes (squares and rectangles) in red and yellow wool showing a variety of stitches.

Mackie, Mary

'Drawn Fabric Work' fold-out booklet

Yellow folder labelled Drawn Fabric Work containing a handwritten explanation of the technique and the materials and a sample with a central design of a tree or flowerand a border with patterns.

Mackie, Mary

Binder of canvas work samples

Black and white patterned ring binder containing 7 samples of canvas work showing different stitches and patterns:

  1. Sample with yellow, gray, brown and green wool

  2. Sample with black, peach, blue and olive green wool

  3. Sample with bright pink, blue and yellow wool

  4. Sample with black, brown, white and light green wool

  5. Sample with black, yellow, white and blue wool

  6. Sample with dark red, blue, dark green and white wool

  7. Sample with dark green, acid yellow, peach and blue wool

Mackie, Mary

Sampler fold-out book

A fold-out book, bound in red fabric, with a white cloth tie around it, embroidered with patterns in red thread. The tie is secured at the back with a red button in the design of spoked wheel and a loop of red thread. On the front cover is an embroidered label with the name 'Mary Mackie' in red thread on a white cloth.

Inside are six 'pages' each with a sample of embroidery attached:

  1. Needlepoint depicting a small town with four buildings, roads and trees.

  2. White needle lace (?) square with sections showing different patterns, with border.

  3. White cloth square of counted-thread embroidery with nine different designs in red, black and orange with border.

  4. White drawn thread work square with nine different designs, with border.

  5. 11 embroidered designs on differently coloured cloth depicting patterns and stylised plants.

  6. Needlepoint depicting a white hart and flowers on a green background.

Mackie, Mary

Embroidered empty visitor's book

Orange textile cover of a visitor's book with black and white embroidery and purple cylindrical beads. Verso includes two cats and a porcupine and the words "Visitor's book" on the front. "Bushey sketch book" and "C. Robertson & Co. Ltd." company sticker on the inside of the front cover. Rest of the book is empty white pages of paper.

Reid, Sheena

Les Oiseaux

Pair of embroidered birds with flowers in symmetrical design on green and white fabric pink, white, blue, green and burgundy threadwork.

Mackie, Mary

Broken Diamonds

Framed embroidery of geometric design with orange, pink, purple, blue, and green thread on a purple background. Back of frame has label from "The Present Gallery, 16 Broomgate, Lanark", stating artist "Margaret McFarlane" and title of work "Broken Diamonds".

McFarlane, Margaret

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