Sewing instruction book samples, Medium: linen, wool Technique: embroidered on plain weave, a) Sampler with letters worked in red as cross borders. b) Sampler on wool fabric with alphabets, numbers, and one cross border worked in brown, yellow, and green. c) Sampler with alphabet, numbers and cross borders worked in blue. d) Sampler worked in colors in design of two floral cross borders and a floral ornament surrounding 'Maria Smith 184_.' e) Sampler worked in colors of wool with two alphabets, numbers and floral ornament. f) Sampler (unfinished) with fourteen letters worked in brown silk

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