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She would have embroidered it herself. It does not appear to have been used.<br><br><b>People</b><br>Martha Edlin (1660-1725) worked a series of embroideries during her childhood, including this pin cushion, which were cherished by her descendants and passed down through the female line in her family for over three hundred years. We know little about her life, except that she married a man called Richard Richmond and appears to have been a prosperous widow, with daughters and grandchildren, living in Pinner in Greater London at the time she drew up her will.<br><br><b>Materials & Making</b><br>Following the usual development of needlework skills in a young educated girl in the mid 17th century, Martha Edlin embroidered a multi-coloured sampler at the age of eight, and a more complicated piece in whitework and cutwork at nine. By 1671, her eleventh year, she had embroidered the panels of an elaborate casket, and two years later a beadwork jewellery case. 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