Scarlet Letter Gardens Cross Stitch Patterns

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And All Was For An Appil - Cross Stitch Pattern
by Scarlet Letter
$29.00  $2725
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A derivative 17th-century canvas work picture. The Adam and Eve legend was a more popular theme on samplers after the early eighteenth century so this example is quite unusual. The pair are not often seen on earlier needleworks, even though most illustrated bibles of the sixteenth and seventeenth... Read more
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Ann Hall 1812 - Christian Cross Stitch Pattern
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$15.00  $1409
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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 Jones 1776 - Cross Stitch Pattern
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$26.00  $2443
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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, followed by a pious verse:

Praise the Lord enthron'd on high
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Catharine Metcalf 1836 English Pictorial
by Scarlet Letter
$21.00  Sale $1742
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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 flowers. The verse is as... Read more