This engraving has been transferred onto cloth and prepared by ‘squaring’ for embroidering. A guide to which colour thread to apply has been provided by the addition of watercolour swatches along the top edge, and in the image itself. The engraving also bears numbers: in the centre ‘183’, on the top right ‘2927’ and in the left margin ‘201’, possibly references to a sequence in a pattern book. The lettering of the publishers ‘Hertz & Wegener’ in Berlin has been partially obscured by the folded fabric on the bottom edge. Hertz and Wegener were Berlin-based pattern makers active in the 19th century. They produced embroidered pictures known as ‘Berlin wool work’ using wool from Merino sheep in Saxony that was taken to Gotha to be spun and on to Berlin to be dyed. Prior to the introduction of Berlin patterns, it was very rare to find any indication about the choice of colour or threads. Berlin patterns were always coloured by hand at first, until the emergence of industrial printing techniques.