Scarlet Letter Reproduction Cross Stitch Patterns Page 2

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M Quertier 1799 - Cross Stitch Pattern
by Scarlet Letter
$16.00  $1503
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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
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Country Life 1783 - Cross Stitch Pattern
by Scarlet Letter
$20.00  Sale $1659
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Note from the designer - "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... Read more
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The Manifesto - Cross Stitch Pattern
by Scarlet Letter
$35.00  $3289
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Note from the designer - "Designed after an early eighteenth century tent stitched picture, this expansive needlework scene depicts many episodes in the life of an affluent English family including its elaborate parterre and gardens, a stately brick and stone house, domestic, exotic and wild... Read more
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Huswife Circa 1780 - Cross Stitch Pattern
by Scarlet Letter
$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
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Eunice Morton 1794 - Cross Stitch Pattern
by Scarlet Letter
$17.00  Sale $1410
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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
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Emely C Newman 1831 - Cross Stitch Pattern
by Scarlet Letter
$17.00  $1597
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A unique four-sided geometric border is the highlight of this American sampler, consisting of nine rows of letters and numerals surrounded by a counted satin stitch sawtooth inner border. The design looks like something that might have inspired the Dutch artist Piet Mondrian. I have not been able... Read more
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Elizabeth Gooding 1790 - Cross Stitch Pattern
by Scarlet Letter
$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
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Jane Moore 1820 - Cross Stitch Pattern
by Scarlet Letter
$28.00  $2631
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A RED BRICK MANSION HOUSE is at the center of this wildly engaging English sampler featuring a small zoo/conservatory/aviary of flora and fauna as interpreted by an exceptionally talented young woman of the early nineteenth century. The verse is common enough on nineteenth-century samplers, unlike... Read more
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Ann Whittaker 1790 - Cross Stitch Pattern
by Scarlet Letter
$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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Mary Lee 1786 - Cross Stitch Pattern
by Scarlet Letter
$25.00  Sale $2074
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Note from the designer - "At the age of fourteen, Mary Lee stitched this beautiful band sampler with a good assortment of flowers, birds, swans, squirrels, and other traditional motifs. Worked into the center of a band in tight, precise stitches, is the cautionary aphorism "In thy youth... Read more
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Abigail Ann Fleming 1816 - Cross Stitch Pattern
by Scarlet Letter
$12.00  Sale $995
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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
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Abigail Bacon 1798 A New England Sampler
by Scarlet Letter
$18.00  $1691
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This sampler could possibly have been made in Connecticut but the surname is quite common throughout New England. Abigail was ten years old when she made her sampler. The original was stitched on unbleached homespun linen using silk threads, and the reproduction very closely approximates the size of... Read more
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ACL Danish Sampler 1790 - Cross Stitch Pattern
by Scarlet Letter
$16.00  Sale $1327
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Note from the designer - "In Scandinavia, as in England and America, sampler patterns (called navneklude meaning, literally, "name cloths") were passed along from teacher to pupil, mother to daughter, generation to generation. The designs were used to mark ownership of domestic textiles,... Read more
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German Sampler by AEDEGNES 1746 - Cross Stitch Pattern
by Scarlet Letter
$20.00  Sale $1659
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Note from the designer - "A characteristically northern German sampler, this example from Hamburg consists of random symbolic spot motifs, with a unifying central scene and borders. Religious symbols are commonly found on almost all continental samplers, and Adam and Eve in particular is often... Read more
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Amelia Pewmer 1782 - Cross Stitch Pattern
by Scarlet Letter
$12.00  Sale $995
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Note from the designer - "Although there has not been the extensive research and study of English Quaker samplers as there has been of their American counterparts, we believe that this sampler was created under the tutelage of a Quaker sewing instructress in England. The fine bleached linen and... Read more
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Amy Ball 1810 - Cross Stitch Pattern
by Scarlet Letter
$12.00  $1127
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Note from the designer - "Samplers depicting children - particularly such large children - are uncommon. Not only the children make this an outstanding sampler, but also the multi-floral border, the charming verse, the scene at the top with its menagerie of creatures, and the beautiful naturalistic rose at the center. The original sampler is English and was worked on a very fine tiffany."
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Ann Bowden 1811 - Cross Stitch Pattern
by Scarlet Letter
$10.00  Sale $829
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Note from the designer - "This unusual sampler is probably of Scottish origin. The distinctive French-inspired mansion house and the peacocks are commonly found on Scottish samplers. Adam and Eve are realistically stitched in the Garden, by effectively working two quite simple stitches together:... Read more
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Anne Depauw 1714 - Cross Stitch Pattern
by Scarlet Letter
$10.00  Sale $829
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Note from the designer - "Designed after an exquisite English band sampler. The verse is:

Favour is deceitful and beauty is vain
but a woman that feareth the Lord she shall be praised

Give her the fruit of her hands and let her own works praise her in the gates

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Ann Fleming - Cross Stitch Pattern
by Scarlet Letter
$15.00  Sale $1244
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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
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Ann Forrest 1757 - Cross Stitch Pattern
by Scarlet Letter
$26.00  Sale $2157
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Note from the designer - "This very delicate Scottish sampler with its bold color scheme was designed with a four sided stylized honeysuckle border surrounding horizontal rows of illuminated alphabets and double running stitch motifs. The extensive use of double running stitch lends the sampler... Read more
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Ann Jones 1776 - Cross Stitch Pattern
by Scarlet Letter
$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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Perform'd by Ann Parnell 1799 - Cross Stitch Pattern
by Scarlet Letter
$15.00  Sale $1244
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Note from the designer - "This Quaker sampler came from the vicinity of York, England, where a Quaker school existed at the same time as the more famous Ackworth School, not far from there. The Parnell name is still fairly common in the district, and the family was Quaker.

Linen count and finished size: 35-count 18-3/4" x 24"; or 40 count 16-1/2" x 21"
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Ann Scutt circa 1675 - Cross Stitch Pattern
by Scarlet Letter
$22.00  $2067
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Note from the designer - "Several band samplers very similar to this one are in the collection of the Victoria & Albert Museum in London as well as in other important collections. This particular sampler came from the collection of The Scarlet Letter, and is now in a private collection. A... Read more
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Catharine Metcalf 1836 English Pictorial
by Scarlet Letter
$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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Elizabeth Gray 1832 - Cross Stitch Pattern
by Scarlet Letter
$29.00  $2725
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This English sampler was made in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, featuring the Sheffield General Infirmary, a verse, a fashionably dressed man and woman, and a collection of animals in the lawn in front (sheep, fox, squirrels, rabbit, dog), all surrounded by a four sided berry border.

The... Read more
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Country Life Sampler - Cross Stitch Pattern
by Scarlet Letter
$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
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Dutch Sampler of 1773 - Cross Stitch Pattern
by Scarlet Letter
$12.00  Sale $995
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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
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Elizabeth Hicks 1745 - Cross Stitch Pattern
by Scarlet Letter
$26.00  Sale $2157
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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

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Elizabeth Mansfield 1792 - Cross Stitch Pattern
by Scarlet Letter
$8.00  $751
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Note from the designer - "Elizabeth Mansfield finished her sampler in England on 13th June 1792, during the reign of King George III (1760-1820: note the cushioned crown in the upper third, marked on either side by the initials G R for George Rex). The original sampler was stitched on a very... Read more
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Elizabeth Mitchell 1828 - Cross Stitch Pattern
by Scarlet Letter
$10.00  $939
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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
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Elizabeth Pain 1667 - Cross Stitch Pattern
by Scarlet Letter
$20.00  $1879
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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
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Elizabeth Raysor 1834 - Cross Stitch Pattern
by Scarlet Letter
$7.00  Sale $580
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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."

Origin and date: Pennsylvania... Read more
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Elizabeth Topham 1727 - Cross Stitch Pattern
by Scarlet Letter
$9.00  $845
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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
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FAK-MEK 1779 - Cross Stitch Pattern
by Scarlet Letter
$10.00  $939
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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
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Fanny M Forister 1828 - Cross Stitch Pattern
by Scarlet Letter
$18.00  Sale $1493
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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
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Fanny Hancock 1796 - Cross Stitch Pattern
by Scarlet Letter
$7.00  Sale $580
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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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Fanny Peachey Circa 1810 - Cross Stitch Pattern
by Scarlet Letter
$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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Frances B Jones 1817 - Cross Stitch Pattern
by Scarlet Letter
$18.00  $1691
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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
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Freelove Hazard 1792 - Cross Stitch Pattern
by Scarlet Letter
$12.00  $1127
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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
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Elizabeth Treadaway 1793 - Cross Stitch Pattern
by Scarlet Letter
$33.00  Sale $2738
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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.

NO GAINS... Read more
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Grace Catlin 1719 - Cross Stitch Pattern
by Scarlet Letter
$19.00  $1785
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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
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Hannah Breed 1756 - Cross Stitch Pattern
by Scarlet Letter
$10.00  Sale $829
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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:

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Harriet Boardman 1804 - Cross Stitch Pattern
by Scarlet Letter
$10.00  Sale $829
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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
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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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Helen Vertue 1812 - Cross Stitch Pattern
by Scarlet Letter
$20.00  $1879
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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
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Isabella Robeson circa 1809 - Cross Stitch Pattern
by Scarlet Letter
$9.00  $845
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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
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Janet Carsels 1787 - Cross Stitch Pattern
by Scarlet Letter
$14.00  $1315
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This sampler was made in Scotland and includes many of the traditional motifs associated with samplermaking in this region. Firstly, Janet has included many initials of family members. However the initials at the center- G R 3 -refer to the then-reigning monarch, King George III. The flowering... Read more
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Katie Sym 1769 - Cross Stitch Pattern
by Scarlet Letter
$15.00  $1409
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This is a very finely stitched classic Scottish sampler featuring three complete rows of beautifully illuminated letters, an arcaded floral band as well as other traditional motifs including peacocks, birds drinking at the fountain of life, feather trees and family initials. A four sided berry... Read more


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