Scarlet Letter Cross Stitch Patterns Page 2

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An Acrostic Sampler - Cross Stitch Pattern
by Scarlet Letter
$7.00 $6.57
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Note from the designer - "This sampler was reproduced from an unusual "word square" acrostic sampler made at an Orphanage in England around 1830. The more common form of acrostic is a poem where the first letter of each line forms a word (often a name, or a religious slogan) when read... Read more
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Ann Harding 1821 - Cross Stitch Pattern
by Scarlet Letter
$10.00 $9.39
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Note from the designer - "This Dover, Massachusetts, sampler features an unusual border surrounding alphabetical and numerical tests, and a four-line verse often found on early 19th century American samplers. The colors are remarkably well preserved. The maker, Ann Harding (who was actually... Read more
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Betsy Adams circa 1770 - Cross Stitch Pattern
by Scarlet Letter
$20.00 $18.79
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Note from the designer - "This sampler was designed after a piece stitched in eastern Massachusetts in the last quarter of the eighteenth century. It incorporates many traditional sampler motifs popular during that century including a Greek fretwork border, vine, carnation and tulip borders,... Read more
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Catharine Metcalf 1836 English Pictorial
by Scarlet Letter
$21.00 $19.73
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Note from the designer - "There is so much going on in this fascinating English sampler that it's hard to know where to begin looking. Apart from the somewhat conventional Adam and Eve at the top center, adorable flying cherubs flank them and the apple tree, bearing gold rings and sprays of... Read more
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MP Dated 1733 - Cross Stitch Pattern
by Scarlet Letter
$18.00 $16.91
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Note from the designer - "The English sampler underwent a dramatic transformation in the second quarter of the eighteenth century as its form gradually followed its evolving function. Its seventeenth-century function was primarily as a pattern record. This example, dated 1733, leans... Read more
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Country Life Sampler - Cross Stitch Pattern
by Scarlet Letter
$20.00 $18.79
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Note from the designer - "Adapted from an English sampler dated 1783. The original sampler from which this piece was adapted measures 15-1/2? x 12-1/2?, and was stitched over one thread of linen on approximately 50-thread-count glazed linen. The house on the left alone, which measures 71 by 62... Read more
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Dona Dorothea Gazano y Garcia - Cross Stitch Pattern
by Scarlet Letter
$22.00 $20.67
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Note from the designer - "Whether this is a Spanish, Mexican or Guatemalan sampler is uncertain but it exhibits design characteristics of all these cultures including the oblong shape as well as the pattern bands worked in a variety of stitches. The attribution "De Mano De Doa Dorothea... Read more
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Elizabeth Lilly 1801 - Cross Stitch Pattern
by Scarlet Letter
$27.00 $25.37
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Note from the designer - "This is a reproduction of an English sampler that features a four-sided carnation border, centering many intricate organic petit point motifs. The large mansion house dominates the central reserve, standing above an extensive pasture occupied by two very large and... Read more
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Elizabeth Mansfield 1792 - Cross Stitch Pattern
by Scarlet Letter
$8.00 $7.51
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Note from the designer - "Elizabeth Mansfield finished her sampler in England on 13th June 1792, during the reign of King George III (1760-1820: note the cushioned crown in the upper third, marked on either side by the initials G R for George Rex). The original sampler was stitched on a very... Read more
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Elizabeth Pain 1667 - Cross Stitch Pattern
by Scarlet Letter
$20.00 $18.79
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Note from the designer: "This band sampler was designed after a piece in the collection of the Fitzwilliam Museum, most remarkable for the colorful, solidly filled geometric and floral sections. It also features double running stitch sections found on Italian embroideries of the sixteenth and... Read more
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Elizabeth Raysor 1834 - Cross Stitch Pattern
by Scarlet Letter
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Note from the designer: "A Pennsylvania German sampler that may not be, strictly speaking, a miniature, but is nonetheless small for its type. Typical Pennsylvania German folk culture motifs - birds, trees, hearts, flowers, crowns and stars - adorn it."

Origin and date: Pennsylvania... Read more
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Elizabeth Topham 1727 - Cross Stitch Pattern
by Scarlet Letter
$9.00 $8.45
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Note from the designer: "This English sampler combines embroidered pictorial, alphabetic, and upholstery techniques, becoming in every sense a sampler of Ms. Topham's best work. Bargello work (also known as canvaswork, Irish stitch, flamestitch, or Florentine stitch) appeared on the earliest... Read more
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Emily Lucille - Cross Stitch Pattern
by Scarlet Letter
$18.00 $16.91
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Note from the designer: "Adapted from a mid eighteenth century English sampler. The combination of several unusual stitch techniques with bold primary colors, makes this sampler outstandingly beautiful and a rewarding project to stitch.
While the majority is done in cross stitch, large... Read more
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Elizabeth Shephard 1820 - Cross Stitch Pattern
by Scarlet Letter
$12.00 $11.27
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Note from the designer - "Acquired in England, one might assume that this classic Quaker motif sampler was made at the Ackworth School in Yorkshire. However the influence of the designs promulgated by the Quaker School needleworkers stretched far beyond the confines of the school's walls. This... Read more
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American Quaker Band Sampler 1803 - Cross Stitch Pattern
by Scarlet Letter
$15.00 $14.09
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Note from the designer - "This is a classic example of an American sampler that has been strongly influenced by needlework design taught at Quaker schools. Likely it was not worked at one of the Quaker schools that flourished from New York to Virginia for more than two hundred years: the linen... Read more
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Sarah Tatum - Cross Stitch Pattern
by Scarlet Letter
$22.00 Sale $18.25
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This reproduction sampler is from the Ackworth Quaker School and is dated 1800. It is rated for beginners.

Linen count and finished size: 35 or 40 count using either cotton or silk floss, 19" x 21" or 17" x 18-1/2"

Chart only.
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Hanna Katerina 1734 German Sampler - Cross Stitch Pattern
by Scarlet Letter
$25.00 $23.49
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Note from the designer - "This finely stitched German sampler begins with a single row of alphabets above an immensely intricate collection of symbolic cross stitched motifs, including battling angels, the figure of Justice with her scales, the spies of Canaan, the crucifixion, Adam and Eve... Read more
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M Quertier 1799 - Cross Stitch Pattern
by Scarlet Letter
$16.00 $15.03
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Note from the designer - "In 1779, the Quaker Friends School at Ackworth, Yorkshire, was established for the purpose of educating young people of both sexes, and instilling the values of their Society; equality, simplicity, peace. Girls received nearly the same instruction as boys. Out of this... Read more
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Rebecca Robinson 1821 - Cross Stitch Pattern
by Scarlet Letter
$15.00 $14.09
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Note from the designer - "An intensely stitched and well-planned sampler, this unusual piece probably originated in Pennsylvania. The allegorical figure hovering over the house could represent Liberty. The unconnected border of floating honeysuckle is unique, as well as the little pastoral vignettes in the lower register." Rated for beginners.

Chart only.
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The Manifesto - Cross Stitch Pattern
by Scarlet Letter
$35.00 Sale $29.04
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Note from the designer - "Designed after an early eighteenth century tent stitched picture, this expansive needlework scene depicts many episodes in the life of an affluent English family including its elaborate parterre and gardens, a stately brick and stone house, domestic, exotic and wild... Read more
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Huswife Circa 1780 - Cross Stitch Pattern
by Scarlet Letter
$17.00 Sale $14.10
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Note from the designer - "This little needlework was likely made as a panel of a "huswif"/aka a "housewife", which was an embroidered, double-sided vertical series of pockets made to hold needleworking supplies. It could be folded up or hung from a peg for swift access to the... Read more
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Eunice Morton 1794 - Cross Stitch Pattern
by Scarlet Letter
$17.00 $15.97
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Note from the designer - "This American sampler was stitched on a loosely woven homespun linen with vegetable-dyed silk threads. Despite its size and simplicity, the design is striking, delicate, and well-balanced. Eunice Morton was born in 1783 in Gorham County, Maine. Sometime in 1809-1810,... Read more
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Jane Howell 1835 - Cross Stitch Pattern
by Scarlet Letter
$26.00 Sale $21.57
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Note from the designer - "This very finely stitched English sampler has a multifloral border centering an alphabet and numerals in a pyramidal configuration, a verse, and a scene executed in petit point, featuring a cozy cottage flanked by trees and oversized, robust blooms. The verse was... Read more
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Elizabeth Gooding 1790 - Cross Stitch Pattern
by Scarlet Letter
$26.00 Sale $21.57
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Note from the designer - "This is a beautiful sampler from Norwich (Norfolk, United Kingdom), possibly stitched at a school run by one Mrs. Wright or her descendent (hence the initials "MW" below Elizabeth's name in the attribution). A list of teachers in Norwich in 1783 includes... Read more
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Jane Moore 1820 - Cross Stitch Pattern
by Scarlet Letter
$28.00 $26.31
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Note from the designer - "A RED BRICK MANSION HOUSE is at the center of this wildly engaging English sampler featuring a small zoo/conservatory/aviary of flora and fauna as interpreted by an exceptionally talented young woman of the early nineteenth century. The verse is common enough on... Read more
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A New England Sampler Worked on Green Linen, c 1810
by Scarlet Letter
$15.00 $14.09
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Note from the designer - "Few samplers were stitched on this unusual dark green linsey woosey fabric that combines linen and wool to create a dramatic dark background color to highlight brightly colored floss. Most of these samplers were made in the coastal towns of Massachusetts up to New... Read more
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Scottish Sampler circa 1740 - Cross Stitch Pattern
by Scarlet Letter
$12.00 $11.27
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Note from the designer - "Scottish samplers are often easily identified by their color palette: intense shades of red, green, and pink, as well as by clusters or rows of initials of family members. This small sampler includes motifs usually seen on earlier samplers of the late seventeenth... Read more
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Abigail Ann Fleming 1816 - Cross Stitch Pattern
by Scarlet Letter
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Note from the designer - "Abigail Ann was born October 27, 1799, in East Caln, Chester County Pennsylvania. Her parents were Joseph and Ann (Wells) Fleming, the fourth generation of Flemings living in the East Caln area. Abigail Ann attended one of the Quaker schools in Chester County but we are... Read more
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Abigail Bacon 1798 A New England Sampler
by Scarlet Letter
$18.00 $16.91
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Note from the designer - "This sampler could possibly have been made in Connecticut but the surname is quite common throughout New England. Abigail was ten years old when she made her sampler. The original was stitched on unbleached homespun linen using silk threads, and the reproduction very... Read more
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ACL Danish Sampler 1790 - Cross Stitch Pattern
by Scarlet Letter
$16.00 Sale $13.27
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Note from the designer - "In Scandinavia, as in England and America, sampler patterns (called navneklude meaning, literally, "name cloths") were passed along from teacher to pupil, mother to daughter, generation to generation. The designs were used to mark ownership of domestic textiles,... Read more
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German Sampler by AEDEGNES 1746 - Cross Stitch Pattern
by Scarlet Letter
$20.00 $18.79
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Note from the designer - "A characteristically northern German sampler, this example from Hamburg consists of random symbolic spot motifs, with a unifying central scene and borders. Religious symbols are commonly found on almost all continental samplers, and Adam and Eve in particular is often... Read more
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Amanda Jewel 1816 - Cross Stitch Pattern
by Scarlet Letter
$12.00 $11.27
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Note from the designer - "This sampler was made in St. Albans, Vermont. A naturalistic four-sided floral border surrounds a central reserve with alphabets and a pictorial scene. The house is so distinctive that it is probably a depiction of Amanda's own home. Made under the tutelage of B.... Read more
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Amy Ball 1810 - Cross Stitch Pattern
by Scarlet Letter
$12.00 Sale $9.95
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Note from the designer - "Samplers depicting children - particularly such large children - are uncommon. Not only the children make this an outstanding sampler, but also the multi-floral border, the charming verse, the scene at the top with its menagerie of creatures, and the beautiful naturalistic rose at the center. The original sampler is English and was worked on a very fine tiffany."
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Ann Bowden 1811 - Cross Stitch Pattern
by Scarlet Letter
$10.00 $9.39
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Note from the designer - "This unusual sampler is probably of Scottish origin. The distinctive French-inspired mansion house and the peacocks are commonly found on Scottish samplers. Adam and Eve are realistically stitched in the Garden, by effectively working two quite simple stitches together:... Read more
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Ann Brockbank 1812 - Cross Stitch Pattern
by Scarlet Letter
$10.00 $9.39
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Note from the designer - "A sophisticated painterly use of perspective distinguishes this pictorial English sampler. An idealized rural scene with a thatched cottage nestled in a fertile valley, with white misted hills rising in the distance, also features a windmill, a flock of sheep,... Read more
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Ann Carbutt 1830 - Cross Stitch Pattern
by Scarlet Letter
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Stitch count is 271 x 325.

Note from the designer - "So many unusual and enigmatic features were left by Ann Carbutt on her sampler, made when she was sixteen years old, very likely in the West Riding of Yorkshire. The surname "Carbutt" is first found in Cheshire after the... Read more
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Ann Cottee 1848 - Cross Stitch Pattern
by Scarlet Letter
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Note from the designer - "This is a very graceful and finely stitched sampler, an unusual combination for the late date. Nine ethereal female figures, like penitents in an Edward Gorey cartoon, march solemnly about the sampler, paying homage to the house. The huge house appears to be welcoming... Read more
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Anne Depauw 1714 - Cross Stitch Pattern
by Scarlet Letter
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Note from the designer - "Designed after an exquisite English band sampler. The verse is:

Favour is deceitful and beauty is vain
but a woman that feareth the Lord she shall be praised

Give her the fruit of her hands and let her own works praise her in the gates

... Read more
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Ann Forrest 1757 - Cross Stitch Pattern
by Scarlet Letter
$26.00 Sale $21.57
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Note from the designer - "This very delicate Scottish sampler with its bold color scheme was designed with a four sided stylized honeysuckle border surrounding horizontal rows of illuminated alphabets and double running stitch motifs. The extensive use of double running stitch lends the sampler... Read more
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Ann Hair 1762 - Cross Stitch Pattern
by Scarlet Letter
$16.00 $15.03
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Note from the designer - "This is a beautifully balanced, intensely stitched transitional sampler. Worked originally in brightly colored silk threads on a fine tammy (wool) ground, it features a repeating, four-sided carnation border, surrounding five horizontal bands interspersed by lines of... Read more
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Ann Hall 1812 - Cross Stitch Pattern
by Scarlet Letter
$15.00 $14.09
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Note from the designer - "This wonderful English sampler has to be an original inspired composition by a very clever young girl with a singular artistic vision! Potbellied cherubs fly trumpeting alongside a doughy, asexual Adam and Eve, beneath whom perch an enormous plumed Bird of Paradise on a... Read more
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Ann Johnson 1729 - Cross Stitch Pattern
by Scarlet Letter
$15.00 Sale $12.44
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Note from the designer - "As the purpose for making samplers evolved over the decades and the centuries, so did its form. This beautiful early 18th century English band sampler retains the shape of her predecessors, but has clearly changed into a form distinctly recognizable as a product of her... Read more
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Ann Jones 1776 - Cross Stitch Pattern
by Scarlet Letter
$26.00 Sale $21.57
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Note from the designer - "In the upper register of this finely stitched English sampler there is featured an unusual vignette of Adam and Eve beneath the tree of life (with a menacing black faced serpent) flanked by mirror image brick cottages (his and hers?), followed by a pious verse:

... Read more
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Ann Lawle circa 1650 - Cross Stitch Pattern
by Scarlet Letter
$26.00 Sale $21.57
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Note from the designer - "This band sampler begins with a cut and drawn thread pattern of birds derived from Frederico de Vinciolo's 1587 pattern book, followed by a counted thread satin stitch whitework section. The man and woman flanking the tree have detached buttonhole stitch collars and... Read more
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Perform'd by Ann Parnell 1799 - Cross Stitch Pattern
by Scarlet Letter
$15.00 Sale $12.44
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Note from the designer - "This Quaker sampler came from the vicinity of York, England, where a Quaker school existed at the same time as the more famous Ackworth School, not far from there. The Parnell name is still fairly common in the district, and the family was Quaker.
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Ann Scutt circa 1675 - Cross Stitch Pattern
by Scarlet Letter
$22.00 $20.67
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Note from the designer - "Several band samplers very similar to this one are in the collection of the Victoria & Albert Museum in London as well as in other important collections. This particular sampler came from the collection of The Scarlet Letter, and is now in a private collection. A... Read more
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Elizabeth Gray 1832 - Cross Stitch Pattern
by Scarlet Letter
$29.00 $27.25
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Note from the designer - "This English sampler was made in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, featuring the Sheffield General Infirmary, a verse, a fashionably dressed man and woman, and a collection of animals in the lawn in front (sheep, fox, squirrels, rabbit, dog), all surrounded by a four sided... Read more
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Elizabeth Hicks 1745 - Cross Stitch Pattern
by Scarlet Letter
$26.00 $24.43
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Note from the designer - "This beautiful. petite, energetic sampler expressed three fine verses and, at the end, one of the truest "signatures" I've ever read on a piece of needlework:

By this ingenous Maids
may see what by the
needl wrought
may be

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