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Scarlet Letter Samplers Cross Stitch

A Peacock, a Unicorn & a Badger - Cross Stitch Pattern

by Scarlet Letter

$35.00 $3289

A needlework picture designed after an early eighteenth century canvas work piece, featuring a tree, two unicorns, a peacock, a badger and more!

Stitched over two threads on 40 count linen of your choice, the finished size will measure approximately 16" x 17". Cross and counted... Read more

And All Was For An Appil - Cross Stitch Pattern

by Scarlet Letter

$29.00 $2725

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

Hanna Katerina 1734 German Sampler - Cross Stitch Pattern

by Scarlet Letter

$25.00 $2349

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

A Miscellany - Cross Stitch Pattern

by Scarlet Letter

$35.00 $3289

A MISCELLANY: A Collection of Seventeenth Century Canvas work Elements from the Natural World

The subjects in this needlework design are taken from a seventeenth century canvas work, formerly in the collection of The Scarlet Letter, consisting of nine panels stitched primarily in shades... Read more

Joanna Warren 1655 - Cross Stitch Pattern

by Scarlet Letter

$23.00 $2161

Note from the designer: "This densely worked sampler displays exquisite detail and contains many of the most popular needlework motifs of the seventeenth century. The flowers are realistically shaded to achieve a natural look."

Finished size on 35 count linen is 7 1/4" x 25... Read more

Elizabeth Eyles 1799 - Cross Stitch Pattern

by Scarlet Letter

$21.00 $1973

Note from the designer - "This sweet English sampler is the first I've ever seen with a border made up of flying cherubs. It also features a "geode" (mosaic) parrot- a distinctively stylized bird that appears on other samplers made in England, New England, and the Netherlands throughout... Read more

Eleanor Parr 1816 - Cross Stitch Pattern

by Scarlet Letter

$30.00 $2819

Note from the designer - "Eleanor Parr created this amazing and unique sampler some time before 1835. The border of birds encircled by vines and leaves is unprecedented. Fleurs de lys embellish each of the four corners surrounding a central reserve containing a traditional verse, floral sprays... Read more

Jane Atkinson circa 1780 - Cross Stitch Pattern

by Scarlet Letter

$28.00 $2632

Note from the designer - This needlework was designed after an English sampler in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts-Boston. The lush border flowers are similar to those on a sampler made by Sarah Brignell from around the same period, suggesting the existence of a school or teacher whose... Read more

Elizabeth Masterton 1838 - Cross Stitch Pattern

by Scarlet Letter

$26.00 $2443

Note from the designer - "Typical of so many Scottish samplers, Elizabeth Masterton's features an abundance of initials (likely familial), rows of evergreen trees, peacocks with seven tail feathers, and the now famous mansion house fronted by a pillared fence and gates enclosing sheep. Apart... Read more

Dorcas Haynes 1720 - Cross Stitch Pattern

by Scarlet Letter

$28.00 $2631

Note from the designer - This is the most symmetrical, balanced, counted thread sampler that we have ever charted from. It is also one of the most satisfying, challenging, and beautiful samplers in the world. Originally worked on a fine wool ground, the colors of our reproduction have been matched... Read more

A Parrot, A Leopard, A Lion - Cross Stitch Pattern

by Scarlet Letter

$28.00 $2632

Note from the designer - "This design was inspired by an early eighteenth century English picture executed in tent stitch." The designs features a lion, a leopard and a parrot surrounded by bright flowers.

The design is stitched over one thread on 35 Ct. linen. It uses cross... Read more

Elizabeth's Squirrel - Cross Stitch Pattern

by Scarlet Letter

$26.00 $2443

Note from the designer - "This picture was originally designed to be used as a cushion or footstool cover, or perhaps as a decorative vignette inserted into the top of a wooden box for storing precious objects. Executed entirely in cross stitch, its most prominent characters are a large squirrel... Read more

Needlework Panel of a Fruit Tree With Two Animals- Pattern

by Scarlet Letter

$29.00 $2729

This colorful William III English needlework vignette is executed entirely in gros and petit point stitches (cross stitch over one and two threads of linen). It depicts a large gros point fruiting tree above a scene with very finely stitched petit point leaves, flowers, and two animals, the larger... Read more

Dorothy Walpole 1774 - Cross Stitch Pattern

by Scarlet Letter

$25.00 $2349

This Irish Quaker sampler features an alphabet at the tope, verse, bands, and flowers. The verse reads "Great Almighty God above plant in my heart a fund of love, that I my mercies may adore and bless and praise thee evermore."

Model is stitched on 40 ct linen using either cotton... Read more

Grazing Sheep circa 1810 - Cross Stitch Pattern

by Scarlet Letter

$18.00 $1691

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

Hannah Mosher 1798 - Cross Stitch Pattern

by Scarlet Letter

$10.00 $939

Note from the designer: "Hannah Mosher was born March 12th, 1786, in Hollis, New Hampshire, the fourth and last child of Abijah and Hannah Mosher. On March 7, 1813, she married the Rev. Walter Chapin of Woodstock, Vermont. Apart from this sketchy biographical information, found in the History of... Read more

Sarah Brignell 1769 - Christian Cross Stitch Pattern

by Scarlet Letter

$29.00 $2729

Try as we might, we cannot find another sampler to compare with this one by Sarah Brignell. It is a sampler unto itself: truly an original piece of folk art. The tiny central cartouche with the densely stitched scene floats like a little world unto itself in the midst of the exuberant garden of... Read more

Emma Miles 1848 - Cross Stitch Pattern

by Scarlet Letter

$29.00 $2729

The original sampler, made in England in 1848, was stitched with cross, counted satin, petit point, and eyelet stitches on an extremely fine glazed linen of approximately fifty threads per inch.

It is unusual to find such a meticulously and finely stitched sampler at this late date, when... Read more

Elizabeth Shephard 1820 - Cross Stitch Pattern

by Scarlet Letter

$12.00 $1127

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

Elizabeth Sheffield 1784 - Cross Stitch Pattern

by Scarlet Letter

$23.00 $2161

Note from the designer - "Rhode Island samplers were among the first American schoolgirl embroideries to be recognized by serious collectors and textile scholars as a distinctive group with extraordinary visual appeal. The Sheffield sampler is delicately worked with an unusually pleasing... Read more

Ann Grimshaw 1818 - Cross Stitch Pattern

by Scarlet Letter

$26.00 $2443

This reproduction sampler is from the Ackworth Quaker School and is dated 1818. It is rated for beginners.

Linen count and finished size: 35 or 40 count; 18-3/4" x 24-1/2" or 16-1/2" x 21-1/2". Stitch count is 330 X 430.

Chart only.

Sarah Tatum - Cross Stitch Pattern

by Scarlet Letter

$22.00 $2067

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.

Susan Singleton - Cross Stitch Pattern

by Scarlet Letter

$20.00 $1879

Note from the designer - "Designed after a mid-eighteenth century New Hampshire sampler, this piece is delightfully naive with its oversized animals, insects, and birds. Around 1760, the New-Hampshire Gazette began publishing advertisements for girls' schools, placed by female instructresses,... Read more

Ann Brockbank 1812 - Cross Stitch Pattern

by Scarlet Letter

$10.00 $939

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

Frances B Jones 1817 - Cross Stitch Pattern

by Scarlet Letter

$18.00 $1691

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

M Quertier 1799 - Cross Stitch Pattern

by Scarlet Letter

$16.00 $1503

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

Man Dogs and Deer - Cross Stitch Pattern

by Scarlet Letter

$35.00 $3289

Flora and fauna were highly celebrated in nearly all 17th and 18th century pictorial embroideries. Executed entirely in cross or tent (half cross) stitches, the embroidered pictures embellished cushions and furniture and reflected a changing attitude toward domestic comforts, by serving to brighten... Read more

Elizabeth Ginger 1735 - Cross Stitch Pattern

by Scarlet Letter

$29.00 Sale $2409

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

Agnes Binnie 1824 - Cross Stitch Pattern

by Scarlet Letter

$27.00 $2539

Agnes Binnie was born in Stirlingshire, Scotland, on March 22, 1808, to Robert Binnie and Mary Addie. She married James Barclay on March 16, 1832, in Falkirk, Stirlingshire. The couple had at least six sons and three daughters. Around 1870 they emigrated to Scotland Township in McDonough, Illinois.... Read more

Betsy Davis 1797 - Cross Stitch Pattern

by Scarlet Letter

$30.00 $2819

Made in Providence, Rhode Island, this sampler is a superb example of the work done at Miss Mary (Polly) Balch's school, one of the most important female learning institutions in America at that time. Combining sophisticated architectural, landscape and figural motifs with elaborate and unusual... Read more

Sarah Hutchinson 1762 - Cross Stitch Pattern

by Scarlet Letter

$29.00 $2729

This is a reproduction of an English sampler made in Bradford, Yorkshire, that shows distinct influences of Scottish needlework traditions, particularly in the illuminated alphabets. The bold primary colors were reproduced from the front of the original sampler, which retains its amazing... Read more

MS Dated 1752 - Cross Stitch Pattern

by Scarlet Letter

$29.00 $2729

This mid-eighteenth-century Scottish band sampler features many classic seventeenth-century patterns, executed in cross, eyelet, double running, counted satin, back, and queen stitches.

The virtually unfaded color was reproduced from the front of the sampler. Six pattern bands precede... Read more

Mary Wagstaff 1819 - Cross Stitch Pattern

by Scarlet Letter

$25.00 $2349

This English sampler features a three-sided floral border surrounding thirteen lines of alphabets, neatly cross-stitched in several different lettering styles. Mary Wagstaff was likely born in Huyton, Lancashire in 1809, completing this sampler when she was ten years old. She passed away in... Read more

Ann Anthony 1838 - Cross Stitch Pattern

by Scarlet Letter

$34.00 $3199

This amazing, unprecedented English sampler illustrates so many unique and bold elements of design, stitched in a balanced way inside a four-sided strawberry border. In all my decades of study I've never seen an antique sampler with quite this much bizarre personality.

At the top is a... Read more

The Huntsman - Cross Stitch Pattern

by Scarlet Letter

$21.00 $1973

Note from the designer - "The design of this piece was inspired by fine examples of early eighteenth century American and English needlework pictures. A picture like this would have been stitched as a painting, with great attention to detail, shading, color, and composition." The design... Read more

Camel and Lion - Cross Stitch Pattern

by Scarlet Letter

$25.00 $2349

This sampler features a lion, a camel, and large colorful flowers. The design was stitched over 2 threads on 40 Ct. linen and is suitable for all skill levels. The stitch count for each design is 244 W x 230 H. The finished piece will measure approximately 12-1/2″ x 11-1/2″.

Bird in Bough - Cross Stitch Pattern

by Scarlet Letter

$12.00 $1127

This 19th century American reproduction sampler features a brown bird on a tree branch. Rated for beginners. Model stitched on 35 count hand dyed linen using either cotton or silk thread. Two versions of the sampler graph have been furnished: one executed with a drawn partially freehand split and... Read more

Rebecca Robinson 1821 - Cross Stitch Pattern

by Scarlet Letter

$15.00 $1409

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.

Mary Bailey 1818 - Cross Stitch Pattern

by Scarlet Letter

$22.00 $2067

Note from the designer - "Mary Bailey stitched this sampler in England and finished it in 1818. It demonstrates an advanced level of skill given the symmetry of the design and its many diverse elements: a red brick mansion house with four chimneys- a sign of wealth in early 19th century England,... Read more

Eunice Morton 1794 - Cross Stitch Pattern

by Scarlet Letter

$17.00 $1597

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, she married Jesse Harding, and... Read more

Abigail Ann Fleming 1816 - Cross Stitch Pattern

by Scarlet Letter

$12.00 $1127

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

Amanda Jewel 1816 - Cross Stitch Pattern

by Scarlet Letter

$12.00 $1127

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

Ann Fleming - Cross Stitch Pattern

by Scarlet Letter

$15.00 $1409

Note from the designer - "A classic Quaker sampler from the Delaware Valley, this sampler demonstrates the style and many of the motifs that make them so easy to identify. The inner oval vine-and-leaf cartouche surrounding the alphabets probably originated at the Westtown School in Chester... Read more

Elizabeth Eaton 1712 - Cross Stitch Pattern

by Scarlet Letter

$25.00 $2349

Note from the designer - "Elizabeth Eaton finished her sampler on the 21st of July in 1712. She used bold, primary colors suggestive of Scottish influence. The original sampler was stitched with both silk and fine wool threads on linen using cross, eyelet, rice, queen, herringbone, double... Read more

Dutch Sampler of 1773 - Cross Stitch Pattern

by Scarlet Letter

$12.00 $1127

This letterndoek (lettering) form of Dutch sampler appears from the late 17th through the early 19th century. It is easy to recognize by its horizontal shape, and beautifully illuminated lettering, interspersed with various symbolic shapes and Biblical motifs. The color scheme used on so many of... Read more

Elizabeth Hicks 1745 - Cross Stitch Pattern

by Scarlet Letter

$26.00 $2443

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

... Read more

Elizabeth Wisler 1845 - Cross Stitch Pattern

by Scarlet Letter

$7.00 $657

Note from the designer: "This sampler is a fine example of work done by Pennsylvania German girls in the early-to-mid nineteenth century. Similar motifs appear on the show towels that decorated kitchen and bedroom doors in these immigrant German households. It is thought that while the show... Read more

Fanny Hancock 1796 - Cross Stitch Pattern

by Scarlet Letter

$7.00 $657

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

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