Scarlet Letter Inspirational Cross Stitch Patterns

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And All Was For An Appil - Cross Stitch Pattern
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$29.00  $2725
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A 17th Century English sampler featuring Adam & Eve in the Garden of Eden. "And all was for an appil." Rated for beginners.

Linen count and finished size: 35 count, 13-1/4" x 16-3/4".

Chart only.
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IES German Sampler 1704 - Cross Stitch Pattern
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$20.00  $1879
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Note from the designer: "This intricate and involved sampler features many traditional German sampler motifs dating from the sixteenth century including a large parrot, a peacock with silver tips on its wings, the Lamb of God, as well as a depiction of the Crucifixion flanked by Mother Mary and... Read more
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Ann Whittaker 1790 - Cross Stitch Pattern
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$29.00  $2725
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Note from the designer - "ANN WHITTAKER created an almost comically theatrical sampler depicting Adam and Eve, angels, pious verses, and elaborate meandering vines beneath dramatic multi-colored draperies and tassels. Hovering over the verse which is framed by large columns, are two angels with... Read more
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Ann Hall 1812 - Christian Cross Stitch Pattern
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$15.00  Sale $1244
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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
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$21.00  $1973
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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
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Fanny Peachey Circa 1810 - Cross Stitch Pattern
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$15.00  Sale $1244
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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
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Harriot Ringrose 1852 - Christian Cross Stitch Pattern
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$20.00  Sale $1659
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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
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IAMEK 1801 - Cross Stitch Pattern
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$8.00  Sale $663
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Note from the designer: "German and Dutch samplers are known for their iconography, especially the symbolic religious motifs. This piece, reproduced from the collection of the Allentown Art Museum in Allentown, Pennsylvania, portrays many of these motifs. Adam and Eve, in particular, are often... Read more