A quintessential English cottage.
embroidered with a timbered thatched cottage with roses round the door and latticed windows, a fence enclosing a garden full of hollyhocks, peonies, daisies, lilac and other flowers, a laburnum tree and a bird, all beautiful embroidered in a variety of stitches in red, pink, lilac, mauve, yellow, green and brown silks on a natural linen ground, mounted 12 x 10 1/2 in w
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I love these little embroidered pictures which make delightful presents. We have stitched the embroidery to calico stretched it over acid free board and made a mount with watercolour lines to match. All it needs is a frame. A woman's magazine, almost certainly a monthly like Woman's Journal gave away free designs such as this printed onto linen, for the embroideress to work. Originally this would have been one of a pair, the other with a cat My thanks to Naomi Tarrant for this information.
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