1850 Hand-embroidered Mourning Card with Handwritten Poem or Prayer in Period Frame boy's drawing painted panes and curtains on

painted panes and curtains on each of the many windows

carefully braided black thread hair

I find this handwoven vintage kilim rug or tapestry super evocative

which makes it appear as if she is trying to see through a cloud of fog

1850 Hand-embroidered Mourning Card with Handwritten Poem or Prayer in Period Frame boy's drawing painted panes and curtains onSo tender and lovely. The handwritten text covering every unstitched inch of this looks to me to be German; I find it hard to decipher but certain phrases seems to appear over and over, so surely a poem or perhaps specifically a prayer. Perhaps it speaks of a sailor lost at sea, which the anchor leaning against the cross at center would suggest, and, with those two wonderful burning hearts, of the true love between the one lost and the one left