A NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER

A NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER

BY ANN CAIRNS, MID-19TH CENTURY

worked with colourful wool on a chocolate coloured linen ground, with a beadwork effect, decorated with an alphabet, numbers, geometric designs and strawberries, with a religious command 'Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth', in a later glazed gilt and ebonised frame

30.5 x 18cm

Provenance

Upper Slaughter Manor, The Collection of Micheál and Elizabeth Feller.

Literature

The Feller Needlework Collection: 2, p.270 for a discussion on this sampler.