The Scarlet Letter | Spot Motif Embroidered Picture circa 1640 Bliss by Windham Au Ver a Soie d'Alger

Au Ver a Soie d'Alger Floss: F05 (2)

the booklet

The wool is felted in this process so it is ready for your appliqué or hooking project

69″ x 11

at the same age as Sarah Welch

The Scarlet Letter | Spot Motif Embroidered Picture circa 1640 Bliss by Windham Au Ver a Soie d'AlgerThis extraordinary piece of seventeenth century needlework was originally executed with fine silks on a linen ground, in tent stitch, and is composed of many different slips or spot motifs, cleverly fitted together. Many of these motifs have symbolic and or heraldic significance, and they can be traced directly from the drawings in Peter Stents pattern books, published in England in the mid seventeenth century. Almost identical to drawings in Stent