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Huswife Circa 1780 - Cross Stitch Pattern
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$17.00  Sale $1410
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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
Elizabeth Gooding 1790 - Cross Stitch Pattern
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$26.00  Sale $2157
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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 Wright, Massey, and Cheetleburgh. The... Read more
Country Life Sampler 1783 - Cross Stitch Pattern
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$20.00  Sale $1659
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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 squares on the graph,... Read more
Elizabeth Mitchell 1828 - Cross Stitch Pattern
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$10.00  Sale $829
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According to a note attached to the back of the original sampler, it was probably made near Newtown, Pennsylvania. The attribution at the center is surrounded by a typical Quaker leafy cartouche with opposing flowers and facing birds above. Other characteristic Quaker motifs include eight point... Read more
Drunkenness by Emma George 1842 - Cross Stitch Pattern
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$10.00  Sale $829
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The Temperance Movement of the early nineteenth century began in the United States prior to 1808. Preachers, most notably John Bartholomew Gough, promulgated a pledge of abstinence from members of his congregation. While temperance efforts have existed as long as spirits have, the movement was not... Read more
Frances B Jones 1817 - Cross Stitch Pattern
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$18.00  Sale $1493
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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
Mary Wagstaff 1819 - Cross Stitch Pattern
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$25.00  Sale $2079
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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
Rachel Jarratt circa 1760 - Cross Stitch Pattern
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$34.00  Sale $2819
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A sampler from the collection of the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, England.

Skill and expertise in sampler-making did not necessarily peak in the mid-to-late seventeenth century and then wane during what is often called the "golden age" of English sampler-making. These skills... Read more
Sarah Mitchell 1758 - Cross Stitch Pattern
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$32.00  Sale $2659
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Here is a dainty and colorful mid-eighteenth-century English sampler executed entirely in cross and petit point stitches making it a suitable project for any skill level.

A four-sided arcaded border of daisies and dianthus surrounds three pious verses with delicate horizontal floral bands... Read more