Beschreibung:

An Extremely Fine and Important English silk and metalic-thread needlework Long Sampler circa 1660 with a large central panel worked with ladies bearing enormous flowerheads in pink and blue robes, their faces of white button-hole stitch with facial characteristics, flaps to each side similarly worked and enclosing boxer-like figures in pink and green, border bands of acorns and blooms worked in cross-stitch and outlined with raised silver thread chain-stich, other bands with gobelin stitch blooms, leaves in polychrome silks infilled with a cariety of designs normally associated with blackwork, raisedwork negro hunter with raised bow, lions, stags, dragons, horses, insects, dogs, a highly detailed band with more button hole stitched boxers holding blooms, fierce lion, scarlet squirrel, spiders, minutely worked pots of blooms and acorn bands higlighted with silver thread, the verse at the base workd in polychrome cross-stitch: These are the practis of mi Youth entitled by the name of truth with care and cost I these have I wrought and finished it with virgin thoug(ht), having run out of space, the last two letters being squeezed into the line above.