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
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."
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 seventeenth century samplers,... Read more
Note from the designer: "This northern German sampler consists of random symbolic spot motifs, with a simple zigzag border. Religious symbols are commonly found on continental samplers. On this example, we find the wreath carried by angels (the wreath as a symbol for eternal life): the ship... Read more
This sweet little American sampler features two little houses above alphabets and a short verse:
Would you be wise
Each moment prize
It is surrounded on four sides by a double sided satin stitched sawtooth border. Stitches used include cross, outline, stem filling, counted... Read more
Fanny Hancock's father, Ebenezer Hancock, was cousin to the famous John Hancock. Born in 1785, Fanny sewed her sampler at age 11. She married Nathaniel Parker of Boston in 1803, and died in 1834. The colors on the back side of her sampler retained much of their original brilliance, and are... Read more
Note from the designer: "This naive Adam and Eve sampler might have been made in Maryland around 1810. At first I believed that the sampler was either English or Irish, judging by the unusual surname, until, in my research, I came upon the gravestone of a Fanny H. Peachey, born 24 November 1799,... Read more
Note from the designer: "The characteristic that readily identifies the origin of this sampler is the distinctive vine and rose border, configured such that a leaf on one side and a rosebud stem on the other give the illusion of a double vine. It is almost always found executed in cross stitch... Read more
Note from the designer: "This sampler was probably made in Rhode Island, a poor sister, perhaps, to the magnificent creations coming out of the girls' schools in Newport, Providence and Bristol at this same period, but bearing some similar "signatures". The squat, long-tailed bird at the... Read more
This sampler features two uncommon verses taken from the book Sentences and Maxims Divine, Moral and Historical, in Prose and Instruction of Human Life: and Particularly for the Improvement of Youth in Good Sence and correct English by George Shelley, published in London in 1712.
Note from the designer: "Who would love this world or prize whats in it
that gives and takes and chops and changes every minute.
This brilliant English traditional band sampler comes from the collection of the Victoria & Albert Museum. Drawing on traditional sampler motifs of the 17th... Read more
Note from the designer: "This finely worked sampler features pastoral scenes above and below a lovely verse about friendship. A four-sided honeysuckle border surrounds large baskets of fruits and flowers, a fenced pasture with seven large lazy sheep and an architectural folly in the background.... Read more
Note from the designer: "This American band sampler was originally worked in Lynn, Massachusetts. Hannah Breed is mentioned in Bolton and Coe's authoritative book American Samplers. Rows of lettering are intermixed with a row of sheep and cows, a verse, and floral bands. The verse says:
Note from the designer: "From Dover, Massachusetts, comes Harriot Boardman's sampler, originally worked on a distinctive green linsey-woolsey found only on some North Shore samplers. A three-sided sawtooth border surrounds alphabet and numeral tests with geometric cross bands, two deer with... Read more
Note from the designer: "The flight into Egypt is a biblical event described in the Gospel of Matthew. Soon after Mary and Jesus were visited by the Magi, who had learned that King Herod intended to kill the male infants in that region, an angel appeared to Joseph in a dream telling him to flee... Read more
Note from the designer: "A beautiful meandering four-sided floral border in an unusually rich color palette surrounds this traditional Scottish sampler, also featuring a beautiful arcaded floral band at the top and a substantial mansion house in the lower register. Trees, tulips and flying birds... Read more
Note from the designer: "This Scottish sampler features many distinguishing characteristics of samplers made in that country, most notably the arcaded pansy band across the top third, the four-sided floral border with double running stitch flourishes, and the famous mansion house. Of this large... Read more
Displaying the traditional color scheme of Scottish samplers, this beautiful and delicately stitched piece also employs a variety of interesting counted thread stitches including queen, doublerunning, four-sided, back, counted satin filling, cross, Algerian eyelet, and cross over one (petit... Read more
This design was excerpted from the top of an early nineteenth-century English sampler. It features an unusual and amusing hunting scene with a solo hunter on horseback pursuing a single hapless stag with a pack of ten spotted hounds on its trail.
The verse reads:
Give me O Lord thy early... Read more
This English sampler comes from the collection of the late Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Jarrett, who established Witney Antiques. It was featured in one of their exhibition catalogs in December 1996 titled "All Creatures Great and Small."
The work is extremely fine and accomplished,... Read more
A reproduction sampler from Beverly, Washington County, Ohio.
The model was stitched over 2 threads on 36 Ct. "linen" colored linen by Weeks Dye Works with Needlepoint Inc Silks. Stitches used are cross over 1 and 2 linen threads, eyelet, close herringbone, 4-sided, Queen, rice and... Read more
A reproduction of a Quaker Sampler from Plymouth Meeting area, Montgomery County, PA.
The model was stitched over 2 threads on 37 Ct. Russian Tea Cake linen by Legacy Linens with Needlepoint Inc Silk. Stitches used are cross over 2 linen threads, chain, eyelet, satin, stem and straight.... Read more
An accurate reproduction of a Quaker sampler from Plymouth Meeting, Montgomery Co., PA. Model stitched on 32 Ct. Vintage Examplar by Lakeside Linens with NPI Silk (or DMC 310). Stitch Count: 135x200.
A reproduction sampler from Saybrook Village, Middlesex County, Connecticut. "Jannette Kirtland, aged 11 years, Remember thy Creator. Sweet is the dream, divinely sweet, when absent friends in fancy meet."
The model was stitched over 2 threads on 37 Ct. Wild Honey Legacy linen with... Read more
The pattern was stitched on 40 count Fox & Rabbit linen, color - Saltbush using NPI silks. Stitch count: 274 tall x 196 wide. Finished size: 13.7" x 9.8" wide.
A Reproduction of a Hutterite sampler from South Dakota
The pattern was stitched on 45 count Legacy linens, color - Jersey Cream using Weeks Dye Works and DMC floss. Stitch count: 383 high x 390 wide. Finished size: 17.02" high x 17.33" wide.
A Reproduction of a sampler from Stanford, Dutchess, County, New York.
The pattern was stitched on 40 count Zweigart linen, color - Cafe' au Lait using NPI silks. Stitch count: 235 tall x 232 wide. Finished size: 11.75" high x 11.6" wide.
Model stitched over 2 threads on fabric of your choice with Au Ver a Soie Soie d'Alger silk floss. Stitch Count: 522 x 451. Design Size on 32 Ct. fabric: 33" x 28"
Model stitched over 2 threads on fabric of your choice with Au Ver a Soie Soie d'Alger silk floss(or DMC floss 162, 3823, 422, 3033, 322, 930, 3348, 895, 581, 733, 3047, 819, 3782, 520, 839, 3031, 3363, 371, 3756, 840, 3774, 225, 407, 800, 798, 3817, 712, 3822). Also required, but not listed above... Read more
Model stitched over 2 threads on fabric of your choice with Au Ver a Soie Soie d'Alger silk floss (or DMC floss 833, 3746, 931, 927, 3810, 524, 834, 832, 400, 3746, 522, 3011, 3363, 760, 3722, 3726, 3042, 3041). Also required, but not listed above 1343 from Soie d'Alger. Stitch Count: 253x264. Design Size on 32 Ct. Fabric: 16" x 17"
Model stitched over 2 threads on fabric of your choice with Au Ver a Soie Soie d'Alger silk floss (or DMC floss 304, 815, 962, 930, 904, 733, 3821, 677, 728, 613, 3041, 3741). Stitch Count: 255x257. Design Size on 32 Ct. Fabric: 16" x 16"
Model stitched over 2 threads on fabric of your choice with Au Ver a Soie Soie d'Alger silk floss (or DMC floss 336, 501, 500, 581, 834, 3820, 150, 3013, 225, 746, 819, 3862, 433, 3756, 712, 433, 3042, 310, 3865). Also required, but not listed above 3712, 3390, and 3996 from Soie d'Alger. Stitch Count: 348x359. Design Size on 32 Ct. Fabric: 22" x 22"
Model stitched over 2 threads on fabric of your choice with Au Ver a Soie Soie d'Alger silk floss (or DMC floss 814). Stitch Count: 374x382. Design Size on 32 Ct. Fabric: 23" x 24"
Model stitched over 2 threads on fabric of your choice with Au Ver a Soie Soie d'Alger silk floss (or DMC floss 720, 554, 3753, 932, 3348, 3346, 745, 725, 945, 948, 818, 3831, white, 822, 369, 3756, 435, 801, 738, 310, 3865). Also required, but not listed above 3712 from Au Ver a Soie Soie d'Alger. Stitch Count: 271x214. Design Size on 32 Ct. Fabric: 17" x 13"
Model stitched over two on 40 Ct. Tycho using Soie d'Alger (or DMC floss 729, 826, 841, 938, 3033, 738, 613). Also required, but not listed above #3436, and #F16 from Soie d'Alger. Stitch Count: 443x257. Design Size: 22" x 13"
Model stitched over 2 threads on fabric of your choice with Au Ver a Soie Soie d'Alger silk floss (or DMC floss 209, 550, 164, 986, 500, 3078, 975, 840, 746, 728, 159, 803, 3865, 355, 3779, 760, 815, 814, 3802, 3774). Also required, but not listed above (2) 1345, 0933 and 4646 from Au Ver a Soie Soie d'Alger. Stitch Count: 237x255
Model stitched on your choice of fabric using Soie d'Alger (or DMC floss 815, 3765, 3822, 754, 3712, 3328, 552, 154, 3042, 648, 319, 840, 839, 434). Also required, but not listed above (2) #3316 and (1) #3322 from Soie d'Alger. Stitch Count: 445x432
Model stitched on your choice of fabric using Soie d'Alger (or DMC floss 3753, 931, 3743, 155, 372, 524, 522, 3052, 3772, 223, 778, 316, 3726). Also required, but not listed above #3712 from Soie d'Alger. Stitch Count: 232x228.
Model stitched over 2 threads on fabric of your choice with Au Ver a Soie Soie d'Alger silk floss (or DMC floss 321, 946, 155, 333, 336, 503, 989, 3345, 732, 3821, 677, 3820, 945, 352, 3865, 3042, 3835, 154, 155, 762, 437, 435, 434, 902, 3753, 3807, 310). Also required, but not listed above 1343,... Read more
Chart suggests 40 ct. linen in the color of your choice. Thread suggestion for both samplers: Soie d'Alger Rouge 946 (6 meters each). Stitch counts are 139 x 100 and 123 x 91.
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