C.H. van Geer, Narrow lettercloth or sampler worked in cross stitch and star stitch in colored silk on bleached linen, marked C.H. VAN GEER 1854, exercise, lettercloth sampler embroidery needlework images silk linen, textile embroidery cross stitch star stitch Narrow rectangular piece of fairly coarse woven and spun bleached linen Left and right selvedge and bottom and top hem edge of 0 , 5 cm. The piece is embroided with silk in the colors pink dark blue yellow light green light beige dark beige white old pink bright pink burgundy reddish brown gray blue fresh green olive green and black. The cloth has no surrounding edge along the sides. Several letter series and number series are embroided on the canvas. Description per horizontal line from left to right: embroided letter series and number series and: C.H. VAN GEER OUD 11 YEAR ANNO 1854 needlework