The practical book of early American arts and crafts . encefor less aggressive tones, with a strong tendency towardgreens, pinks, and blues of tender shades. The eighteenth century saw a changed colourfashion, which the sampler workers manifested in theirpredilection for vigorous, insistent, and even raw reds,greens, yellows, and blues of tones that were frequentlyconflicting. The kaleidoscopic effect was carried intothe lettering as well as the borders, and the diverscoloured letters in one short word often gave it theappearance of a veritable Josephs coat. About the middle of the eighteenth
The practical book of early American arts and crafts . encefor less aggressive tones, with a strong tendency towardgreens, pinks, and blues of tender shades. The eighteenth century saw a changed colourfashion, which the sampler workers manifested in theirpredilection for vigorous, insistent, and even raw reds,greens, yellows, and blues of tones that were frequentlyconflicting. The kaleidoscopic effect was carried intothe lettering as well as the borders, and the diverscoloured letters in one short word often gave it theappearance of a veritable Josephs coat. About the middle of the eighteenth century, strongreds waned in popularity and quieter schemes, in whichblacks, greens, yellows, and blues predominated, be-came the fashion. Desigk^. While the element of deliberate composi-tion was largely lacking in the seventeenth-centurysamplers, because they were primarily of utilitarianintent as a record of designs and stitches to be used inother work, the altered conception of the sampler in theeighteenth century made the question of composition. EMBEOIDERED AND PAINTED PICTURE, EIGHTEENTH CENTURYCourtesy of Colonel William J. Youngs, Garden City, Long Island
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