Antique Needlework Sampler on Linen with Triple Alphabet, House, Flowers seagrass combining Pre-Columbian inspiration with a

combining Pre-Columbian inspiration with a modernist sensibility

green or blue glaze

The face of the disk shows brown where it was once white

Just wonderful

Antique Needlework Sampler on Linen with Triple Alphabet, House, Flowers seagrass combining Pre-Columbian inspiration with aI'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