Early 19th Century Alphabet Sampler with Fantastic Border on Homespun Linen vintage illustration on board in her sunglasses and saddle

in her sunglasses and saddle shoes and with one hand tightly gripping the bar in front of her

with front legs folded closely along his side

as is the hand marbled cover

Japanese I believe

and the film Her

Early 19th Century Alphabet Sampler with Fantastic Border on Homespun Linen vintage illustration on board in her sunglasses and saddleIt is the fantastic embroidered border which happily consumes much of the space! that really sold me on this American schoolgirl sampler, which dates sometime between 1800 1830 I believe. Details show it best two borders, really, with this wonderful snaking vine punctuated with a variety of flowers in between. With a cross stitch alphabet at center, and then again in lower case with numbers 1,2,3,4 running along the bottom, uninterrupted. The color on