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A sampler by Mary Greiner 1758 worked in coloured silks, the upper half with alphabets and the verse "It will increase thy peace and inlarge thy store for to use thy tongue less and thy needle more", the lower half with a fashionable dressed couple and a dog in a pastoral landscape, worked in a variety of stitches including tent and cross stitch, within a stylised floral border--40cm. square, framed and glazed
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A sampler by Mary Greiner 1758 worked in coloured silks, the upper half with alphabets and the verse "It will increase thy peace and inlarge thy store for to use thy tongue less and thy needle more", the lower half with a fashionable dressed couple and a dog in a pastoral landscape, worked in a variety of stitches including tent and cross stitch, within a stylised floral border--40cm. square, framed and glazed
See Colour Plate 2
See Colour Plate 2