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Shop update 3/28

We are spent! 

We have just been overwhelmed and we can't take anymore orders. We are currently at least two weeks behind due to the large volume of linen orders we've received post market. My daughter is coming this weekend to help process as many orders as possible as we will reasses on Monday. We humbly thank you for supporting our small business. This is the first time our shop has closed since it's opening and we hope you will understand this is to prevent frustration to our customers and because we need a light at the end of the tunnel. We appreciate your understanding. You can always reach us via email by using the contact form. 

 

O Sweet Humility Eliza Townsend 1835

Cross Stitch Antiques

$26.00
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SKU:
CSA043
Model: 40 count Vintage Pecan Butter by Lakeside Linens
   Floss:  Needlepoint Ink Silks (NPI)      Stitch Count:  259 wide x 265 high     Design Size:  12.95 x 13.25
Original Size: approximately 16 inches x 16 inches on 32 count linen with cotton threads over two with hemstitched edges
Stitches used: cross stitch over two, satin stich, cross stitch over one for verse, name, and birds
Conversion to DMC and 100/3 silks provided

Provenance: With nothing but a name and date, no personal information could be discovered about the stitcher of this vibrant sampler but it is probable she was an English girl. This can be surmised due to her name, the mirrored images of the motifs flanking the moralistic verse, the large red building, and the lower pastoraL scene of a bucolic country hillside which had come into vogue in the early 1800s based on the period of Romanticism (1798-1837). An ideal landscape is depicted where peace reigns among man and God’s creatures and all is in harmony with God’s plan. The large red edifice rises from the lawn and takes center stage, perhaps a church as depicted by the multiple crosses on the dual steeples.
“O sweet humility can words impart. How much I love thee how divine thou art.
Nurse us not only in our infant age. Conduct us still through each successive stage. Of varying life lead us from youth’s gay prime. To the last step of man’s appointed time. Eliza Townsend’s Work 1835”