SOLD RR's 1836 Red and White Darning Sampler on Homespun Linen in Period Gilded Frame with Original Glass dowel which dissolves into a sort

which dissolves into a sort of earlyish Kandisky-esque abstraction in the foreground

with a little bit of staining around the perimeter edge of the glass where it meets the wood

and especially those cut tin hands of the dial

With great heavily nailed and scuffed up surface

SOLD RR's 1836 Red and White Darning Sampler on Homespun Linen in Period Gilded Frame with Original Glass dowel which dissolves into a sortI love darning samplers of many sorts, and this a very sweet one, American I believe, on homespun linen, signed RR and dated 1836. The finished edges show that it was not cut down from a larger sampler this is all there ever was and it is backed in the frame by another piece of homespun. I'll just never get over the beauty of the patterns on darning samplers like this showing skills for making darns (mends) to match different types weaves of fabric.