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Friday, 14 May 2021 19:12

Pronkrol by Anna Bennink

Detail of a pronkrol sampler of almost 9 m long, worked by Anna Bennink in the Netherlands in 1905/1906

The Textile Research Centre in Leiden has a number of long samplers called, in Dutch, a pronkstuk or pronkrol. This particular example  (TRC 2020.3535a) is almost 9 m long and 30 cm wide. long and 40 m wide. It shows a wide variety of embroidery techniques.

Published in Samplers
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