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JENNY
BEAN 1794 |
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Samplers worked with black backgrounds
are unique to New England, and this one is designed after a late
18th century Massachusetts piece. A portly clergyman is depicted
strolling between a fashionable lady under a parasol, and a church
or meeting -house; with a frisky puppy and a cow incongruously
in the foreground, and an oversized prehistoric-looking bird
in the tree. The entire background, behind and around the lettering
and the scene, would have been filled in with black cross stitches,
but for our reproduction we have instead worked the sampler on
black linen. The black linen supplied in the kit is evenweave,
and not at all difficult to work on, but a helpful hint to make
stitching on black even easier is to place a piece of white cloth
(a towel or a sheet) in your lap under your work as you sew. |
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Origin and date: Massachusetts, 1794
Rated: Beginning
Linen count and finished size: 28 count, 16"x12-3/4"
Stitches: Cross stitch only
Source: Derivative
Kit with cotton floss: $44.00
Kit with silk floss: $74.00
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