SOLD A.E. Farnsworth's 1878 Linen Mending and Darning Schoolwork Sampler in Red tigers perhaps a Pulitzer

perhaps a Pulitzer

as are her sisters Josephine Arquero and Maria Laweka

etc--would attach at their back to a wooden rod

where I believe it has likely always lived as there is an inscription along one edge on back of the frame

SOLD A.E. Farnsworth's 1878 Linen Mending and Darning Schoolwork Sampler in Red tigers perhaps a PulitzerIt's hard to tell scale from photos, I know, but the red darned square on this small 1878 schoolgirl sewing sampler is as precise as any I've ever seen the stitches are teeny teeny teeny tiny, and it's really a beautiful thing. I tend to prefer these sewing skill samplers, practicing mending and darning and seam work, etc. to alphabet samplers (except of the very unusual variety) as these feel so crisp and contemporary; so often white on white and all