Sarah Mary Larkworthy 1727 by Hands Across the Sea Samplers Crewel Embroidery vegetable garden at his feet

vegetable garden at his feet and abundant fruit above his head

Anemones are part of the buttercup family and are also known as windflowers

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With Its Beginnings In Seventeenth Century England

Sarah Mary Larkworthy 1727 by Hands Across the Sea Samplers Crewel Embroidery vegetable garden at his feetSarah Mary Larkworthy was featured in the 2016 exhibition Now Whilst My Hands Are Thus Employed Three Centuries Of Historic Samplers and is held in the private collection of Nicola Parkman. Sarahs exquisite sampler is a wonderful example of the legacy left behind by long forgotten school girls and their needlework teachers. The original sampler was finely embroidered in silk with a palette of only five colours using cross stitch over two threads,