Very Fine Antique Dutch Silk on Linen Darning Sampler with Golden Threads, 1816, Professionally Framed as Found semaphire dial and to my sensibilities really

and to my sensibilities really marvelous and full of life

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with some of the opposite page visible on the backside

substantial but slightly pliable

Overall dimensions 12 1/2" x 11 1/4" x 2 7/8"

Very Fine Antique Dutch Silk on Linen Darning Sampler with Golden Threads, 1816, Professionally Framed as Found semaphire dial and to my sensibilities reallyAmong the things I'm obsessed with, darning samplers are at the top of the list, especially very finely executed 18th and earlier 19th century Dutch ones like this, dated 1816 to me just astounding in the beauty of those laborious, painstakingly precise, gorgeously colored, intricately patterned darns. (Darns being essentially small, freehand weavings used to mend holes in cloth, and a darning sampler like this a showcase of the maker's ability to