Unfinished sampler or lettercloth worked in cross stitch in colored silk on loose woven unbleached linen, marked LNI, sampler embroidery needlework imagery silk linen, textile embroidery cross stitch locker stitch double star stitch Large piece of very loosely woven unbleached linen with left and right selvedge and under and above narrow hem of 0 , 4 cm. The patch is embroided with silk in the colors green greyish blue medium blue burgundy yellow salmon pink black and satin white The lap is not completed only the surrounding edge is complete and along the top of the piece is embroided. Description of the rag in horizontal bands from left to right and from top to bottom: embroided alphabet and number series and: IANNE and TIENB and embroided below: NN and INF or LNI needlework