Early 19th Century Alphabet Sampler with Fantastic Border on Homespun Linen vintage illustration on board as is the hand marbled

as is the hand marbled cover

or doing a split

17th century Spanish

I love the juxtaposition of these multiples profile views of young women

with what I take as an eagle (though could be a hawk

Early 19th Century Alphabet Sampler with Fantastic Border on Homespun Linen vintage illustration on board as is the hand marbledIt 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