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Created in 1712 with bold primary colors suggestive of Scottish embroideries, in silk and wool threads on a linen ground, using cross, eyelet, rice, queen, herringbone and double running stitches.

Mary Lee at the age of fourteen stitched this fine band sampler with a good assortment of flowers, birds, swans, squirrels and other traditional motifs.

MARY SHERWOOD 1726 This museum quality sampler was made with an enormous variety of minute stitches and retains its original vivid color on both the front and the back. It has been professionally cleaned and conserved and has been framed between sheets of conservation glass to display the remarkable reversible and unfaded stitching on the…

A Scottish sampler executed with wool and silk on linen, featuring many traditional Scottish needlework motifs including an arcaded pansy band across the top, illuminated letters, family initials, peacocks, “stacked” trees, and a fine stone mansion house. A soldier and a woman flank the house with birds, crowns and plants around them as well as…

A rare Irish sampler, stitched on linen with silk and wool threads. The linen has a dark horizontal line every ten threads. The stylized four sided floral and vine border surrounds two rows of unusually stylized alphabets, followed by two rows of cursive alphabets, above an eight line verse: Sweet to look inward and attend…

This finely stitched English sampler is executed in cross, petit point, and counted satin stitches in silk on a fine linen ground. Adam and Eve are positioned beneath the tree of life surrounded by beasts of the field: goats, cows, sheep, horses. The sampler measures 12″x19-1/2″, with the frame the piece measures 16″ x 23″. …

This English sampler is the most funky sort I’ve ever seen with the main characters having electric hair and seeming to play toss the ball with apples.