Antique embroidery sampler

Ornamental Stitches and Embroidery Motifs, also known as samplers, have evolved in many ways throughout history.

Linen sampler; embroidered with silk; German; first half of the 16th century.

Bid Live on Lot 444 in the FINE ART & ANTIQUES Auction from Dominic Winter Auctions.

Continuing a major series on American Folk Art featuring 21 postings. Folk Art encompasses art produced by artists and ordinary folk with little or no training in the arts, and is traditionally utilitarian and decorative rather than purely aesthetic. The period I’m covering is the C18th and C19th. For an overview of the series with lots of examples see part 1 also. Part 2 features Samplers and other needlework. The earliest known American Sampler was made by Loara Standish of Plymouth Colony…

Embroidered sampler

Antique Sampler, 1810, by Mary Peers

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97, [1] p. 20 cm

Large basket of flowers with scattered motifs including birds, squirrels, butterflies, and floral sprays, with a verse and inscription; the border is made up of four different floral patterns. The verse reads: I am often like the lonesome dove That mourns its absent mate From hill to hill from vale to vale Its sorrows to relate But canaans land is just before Sweet spring is coming on A few more beating winds and rains And winter will be gone

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