Garden Embroidery
1950's

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

Comments

A quintessential English cottage. 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.

Condition

Excellent.

Price: £85 | $130 | €100