Early 19th Century Alphabet Sampler with Fantastic Border on Homespun Linen squiggle pattern with a couple of tiny

with a couple of tiny folds to the bottom corners and a bit of scattered staining/toning

I know there are some contemporary makers of faux food

and I really love her rendering of those fish

crayon and pencil on construction paper

which I regard as the most special thing I found at Brimfield--purchased from Stephen Corrigan (Stephen-Douglas) who I regard as having the most good and special things around

Early 19th Century Alphabet Sampler with Fantastic Border on Homespun Linen squiggle pattern with a couple of tinyIt is the fantastic embroidered border which happily consumes much of the space! that really sold me on this American schoolgirl sampler, which dates sometime between 1800 1830 I believe. Details show it best two borders, really, with this wonderful snaking vine punctuated with a variety of flowers in between. With a cross stitch alphabet at center, and then again in lower case with numbers 1,2,3,4 running along the bottom, uninterrupted. The color on