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SS Harris, Heart in Hand Sampler *Nashville Market Pre-Order*

$28.00 USD
$28.00 USD
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This item is a Nashville Needlework Market preorder and will ship mid-March.  If you check out with this item, we'll hold your order until market orders are ready to ship.  You can place multiple market preorders and extra shipping charges will be refunded.

Antique Sampler Reproduction
 
Model: 40 count Hemingway Linen by Needle and Flax Alternate Linen: Old Stationery by Seraphim
Thread:  Gentle Art, Classic Colorworks, Weeks Dye Works
Stitch Count: 246 wide x 262 high      
Design Size:  12.3 inches wide x 13.1 inches high
       Original:  17 inches x 17 inches wide, 15 stitches to the inch, cotton thread on 30 count linen
Stitches used: cross stich over two only

 About the Sampler: SS Harris is Sarah Sylyina Harris who stitched her sampler in the thirteenth year of her life. With no year and no place provided it is difficult to find out more about her. What we do know from the way shecarried her thread and misspelled a word or two, perhaps even her middle name, is that she was not so serious about perfection. The whimsical motifs, including the heart in hand motifs, not commonly seen on samplers, bright colors and plentiful pots of flowers on her sampler make it clear Sarah had a bright spirit, despite the somewhat dreary verse common to the times. We hope she indeed met her man and found love, happiness and a long life.
 
Sarah Sylyina Harris is my name.                            My morn of life is hastning fast
And so I mean it shall remain.                                  My spring will soon be oer
Til I can find a likely man                                         And soon the night of death will come
Then I will change it if I can.                                    When I can work no more.
 
                             Made by SS Harris in the 13th Year of her Age.
 
An alphabet to personalize your sampler is provided. Note Sarah stitched her initials in the small cartouche at thebottom right, which you might like to do as well. You may choose to stitch the full alphabet to replace a verse, ortwo alternative verses are provided, one from the Loara Standish sampler, and a second of a romantic nature.

         Provenance and historical background included.

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