Antique Needlework Sampler on Linen with Triple Alphabet, House, Flowers seagrass their faces veiled by scarves

their faces veiled by scarves

combining Pre-Columbian inspiration with a modernist sensibility

green or blue glaze

I walked in to a recent estate sale and this little house was the very first thing I saw

Antique Needlework Sampler on Linen with Triple Alphabet, House, Flowers seagrass their faces veiled by scarvesI'd guess the young woman who created this sampler did not expect it would be around 200 or so years later, so may not have thought much about using very light color threads that would more or less disappear as it aged. The linen backing and needlework itself has held up extremely well and appears almost completely intact, but the linen has darkened and the needlework faded, so it lives now as a very sweet but quite subtle piece, which I love but