Darning sampler worked in colored silk and white linen on fine bleached linen, SB, exercise, stoplap needlework footage silk linen, textile embroidery cross stitch stopping buttoning Pretty square piece of very fine bleached linen with narrow hem of 0.4 cm on all sides. Worked on the cloth with silk in the colors dark red dark green yellow beige and dark blue The layout of the cloth is uneven, which together with the used colors indicates an early date. (First decade of the 18th century) On all four corners of the rag, knotted white linen tufts sewn together sewn: SB handcrafts