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The Scarlet Letter - Fruit Tree with Two Animals, circa 1690 ~ Silk Thread Kit
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$149.00
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Attention customers, conversion to 1003 is only provided if you purchase the thread kit. Purchase of chart only will not provide conversion to Soie 1003.
Fruit Tree with Two Animals, circa 1690 is an English needlework vignette from The Scarlet Letter.
Stitches used to execute sampler are cross stitch over one and two threads of linen
Stitch count: 150 x 150
Choice of purchasing thread kit only, Printed Chart only or as full kit with linen.
Full Kit options:
Includes linen of choice, Printed Chart Booklet + 26 colors of either Soie d'Alger or Soie 1003 threads (+ Free Shipping).
Linen Choices*:
- 30 ct Fat Eighth - Victoria Sponge Cake - 17.5" x 18"
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37 ct Fat Eighth - Russian Tea Cake - 17.5" x 18"
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45 ct Fat Eighth - Jersey Cream - 17.5" x 18"
*Linen sizes assume a 3" border
Thread Options:
Au Ver a Soie®, Soie d'Alger includes 28 skeins. Recommended linen for this thread is 38 ct or lower. Au Ver a Soie®, Soie 1003 includes 26 spools. Recommended linen for this thread is 37 ct or higher.
***Please note, this item is excluded from any discounts or sales.
About the Sampler from the Designer
This colorful William III English needlework vignette is executed entirely in gros and petit point stitches (cross stitch over one and two threads of linen). It depicts a large gros point fruiting tree above a scene with very finely stitched petit point leaves, flowers, and two animals, the larger animal likely a wolf, with a lamb slung over its shoulder.
The Eurasian wolves in Britain were huge, feared, and unlike many other species, did not exhibit “island dwarfism”. They were persecuted by law since Norman times. The last wolf in Britain was supposedly killed during the reign of Henry VII, who died in 1509, but due to a lack of records, the wolves of Britain might well have survived into the seventeenth century in remote areas such as Wales or Scotland. As the land became increasingly deforested and more agrarian, their habitat and natural prey became limited and the wolves would have had to rely on domestic animals as prey. The story goes that the last “wild” wolf was shot near Killiecrankie, Scotland, in 1680 by Sir Ewen Cameron of Locheil.
Stitched on 32-count linen the reproduction panel will be the same size as the original- 9-1/2″ x 9-1/2″. The project is recommended for any skill level.
The Scarlet Letter - Elizabeth Cheetham, 1824 ~ Silk Thread Kit
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$106.00
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Attention customers, conversion to 1003 is only provided if you purchase the thread kit. Purchase of chart only will not provide conversion to Soie 1003.
Elizabeth Cheetham, 1824 is a colorful and quirky English sampler with Scottish influences from The Scarlet Letter.
Stitches used to execute sampler are cross and counted satin.
Stitch count: 331 x 367
Choice of purchasing thread kit only, Printed Chart only or as full kit with linen.
Full Kit options:
Includes linen of choice, Printed Chart Booklet + 19 colors of either Soie d'Alger or Soie 1003 threads (+ Free Shipping).
Linen Choices*:
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37 ct Fat Eighth - Corn Tassel - 17.5" x 18"
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38 ct Fat Eighth - Fuller's Teazel - 17.5" x 18"
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45 ct Fat Eighth - Foxtail Millet - 17.5" x 18"
*Linen sizes assume a 3" border
Thread Options:
Au Ver a Soie®, Soie d'Alger includes 20 skeins. Recommended linen for this thread is 38 ct or lower.
Au Ver a Soie®, Soie 1003 includes 19 spools. Recommended linen for this thread is 37 ct or higher.
***Please note, this item is excluded from any discounts or sales.
About the Sampler from the Designer
This is a pleasantly quirky, colorful sampler likely stitched in the north of England judging by some of the Scottish influences in the design. A four sided strawberry border surrounds an alphabet and a pious verse above a geometric pattern band. Below this is a scenic register with trees, birds, baskets of flowers, and deer with mauve colored spots. The verses are:
Make much of precious Time WHile in Your Power
Careful well to Husband Evry Hour for Time Will
Come When You shall Sore Lament the unhappy
Minutes That you have Misspent
Let Little be the Name of Truth this is the Practice
Of my Youth With Care and Cost I have this Rought
And Finished With a virgins Thought
In the lower third there is a pattern band that resembles bargello, but it is in fact cross stitched. Research reveals that this sampler might have been made by one Elizabeth Cheetham, born in 1813 to James and Martha Cheetham, in Halifax, Yorkshire, England. She married Sampson Craven in 1833 at the age of nineteen. His occupation is noted as “Wool Sorter.” They had eight children. She passed at the age of 65 in 1879. Stitches used to execute the sampler are cross and counted satin. On 40 count linen the finished reproduction will measure approximately 16-1/2″ x 18-1/2″.
