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Fanny M Forister 1828 - Cross Stitch Pattern

by Scarlet Letter

$18.00 Sale $1493

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

Fishing Lady - Cross Stitch Pattern

by Scarlet Letter

$15.00 $1409

Note from the designer: "Our own original design created in collaboration with Terry Meinke, draws upon the needlework traditions of two centuries, in both England and America. The idyllic landscape and more naturalistic figures (as opposed to the blocky shapes of later figures on American... Read more

Four Angels Mourning Sampler - Cross Stitch Pattern

by Scarlet Letter

$22.00 $2067

Note from the designer: "Mourning pictures were not an uncommon art form in England and America during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Evolving from European commemorative art honoring deceased heroes, mourning pictures were a cherished way to remember loved ones, designed to... Read more

Grace Kemish circa 1816 - Cross Stitch Pattern

by Scarlet Letter

$26.00 $2443

"Jesus permit thy Gracious name to stand as the first effort of an infant hand. And while her fingers on the canvas move, engage her tender thoughts to seek thy love. With thy dear children, let her have a part and write thy name thyself upon her heart."

Hannah Breed 1756 - Cross Stitch Pattern

by Scarlet Letter

$10.00 Sale $829

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:

... Read more

Harriet Boardman 1804 - Cross Stitch Pattern

by Scarlet Letter

$10.00 Sale $829

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

Hornbook Bestiary - Cross Stitch Pattern

by Scarlet Letter

$27.00 $2537

Note from the designer: "The figures depicted on this original design were derived from wood block engravings of the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries. The format of the hornbook follows actual examples from the late 18th century. Hornbooks functioned as primers, used to teach young children their... Read more

IAMEK 1801 - Cross Stitch Pattern

by Scarlet Letter

$8.00 $751

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

Janet Burnet 1830 - Cross Stitch Pattern

by Scarlet Letter

$21.00 $1973

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

Janet Carsels 1787 - Cross Stitch Pattern

by Scarlet Letter

$14.00 $1315

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

Katharine Mitchel circa 1785 - Cross Stitch Pattern

by Scarlet Letter

$25.00 Sale $2074

Note from the designer: "This Scottish sampler is a riot of brilliant color and intricate motifs, from the Scotsman in his kilt playing a traditional dulcimer (which looks like a butter churn) in the upper left, to an elaborate mansion house fronted by a three dimensional turkeywork lawn in the... Read more

Rose Shenamon Mitchell 1816 - Cross Stitch Pattern

by Scarlet Letter

$22.00 Sale $1826

Rose's unusual middle name should have provided some clues about where she was born, and where she lived, but the name "Shenamon" is elusive despite my efforts to discover its origins as well as hers. It is spelled many different ways when researched (including Shinimon and Schinnamon which... Read more

Jane Smith 1814 - Cross Stitch Pattern

by Scarlet Letter

$29.00 $2729

This wonderfully symmetrical English sampler features a pair of silky floating swans and large twin sunflowers, executed in a rich natural palette of color. Birds fly over the tops of three flower-trees in the top third. A sumptuous basket of fruit is stitched between the golden swans, and towering... Read more

Margaret Reid 1837- Cross Stitch Pattern

by Scarlet Letter

$29.00 $2729

The original Scottish antique sampler had never been framed and so it was in excellent condition with the same vibrant, unfaded colors on the front as well as on the back. An unusual, elaborate four-sided undulating floral and leaf border surrounds a central reserve with a brief moral verse. Adam... Read more

Mary Randal 1803 - Cross Stitch Pattern

by Scarlet Letter

$29.00 $2729

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

Ann Ward 1808 - Cross Stitch Pattern

by Scarlet Letter

$21.00 $1979

This is a reproduction of a Quaker sampler made in Chester County, Pennsylvania consisting of alphabets, numerals, ligatures* and lineal patterns executed in a variety of stitches. The uppermost border with the dangling central flower is often seen on American Quaker samplers of this period (see... Read more

Rachel Jarratt circa 1760 - Cross Stitch Pattern

by Scarlet Letter

$34.00 $3199

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 Elizabeth Hollings 1825 - Cross Stitch Pattern

by Scarlet Letter

$35.00 Sale $2909

This is an expansive English sampler with an unusual four-sided leafy branch and floral border, centering a very busy reserve filled with baskets of fruits and flowers, stylized trees and plants, birds, lions rampant, butterflies, rabbits, and stags. A large building/mansion/institution is at the... Read more

Sarah Mitchell 1758 - Cross Stitch Pattern

by Scarlet Letter

$32.00 $3009

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

Wisdom and Innocence Bell Pull - Cross Stitch Pattern

by Scarlet Letter

$20.00 $1889

The canvaswork piece from which this bell pull was derived is a book cover, and dates to the first quarter of the 17th century. square tent stitched vignettes, reproduced here in the panels of the bell pull covered the book's spine vertically. It seems appropriate that the allegorical figures of... Read more

Spot Motif Embroidered Picture 1640 Cross Stitch Pattern

by Scarlet Letter

$33.00 $3099

This extraordinary piece of seventeenth century needlework was originally executed with fine silks on a linen ground, in tent stitch, and is composed of many different slips" or spot motifs, cleverly fitted together. Many of these motifs have symbolic and/or heraldic significance, and they can... Read more

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