Although unfinished this Dutch sampler is very appealing and would look good mounted and framed. The letters J Q and U have been omitted from the second alphabet. .Letter voor Letter by Gieneke Arnolli and Rosalie Sloof, documents these Friesian “letterdoekens” (letter cloths). Alphabets on the early samplers, like this one, lack the letters J,Q,U,X,Y,Z
the first Anno 1741 with a house with veranda or fencing flanked by a tree, windmill and a vase of flowers,a secondary row of vases of flowers, below two alphabets and numbers, all within a flower and stem meander border, all in shades of green, blue, yellow and brown silks all worked in cross stitch, on a natural linen ground, 10 x 11 1/2 in or 26 x 29 cm.
A couple of rust markings to the left of the roof and to the rose bush lower middle.
Letter voor Letter Gieneke Arnolli and Rosalie Sloof, documents these Friesian “letterdoekens” (letter cloths). Alphabets on the early samplers, like this one, lack the letters J,Q,U,X,Y,Z
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