Mary Barr Sampler Pattern 1828 Hannah After your purchase

After your purchase

The original size is 1

25" cut fabric 12 by 11 inches20/40 count 5

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She was probably quite young when she stitched this

Mary Barr Sampler Pattern 1828 Hannah After your purchaseIn 1828, at the young age of 12, Mary began working on a semi traditional sampler that incorporated many traditional aspects, such as several upper case alphabets but aligned vertically and horizontally in a decorative square design with the bottom rows stitched upside down. She then adds many geometric shapes; triangles, diamonds, hexagons, etc., all in bold colors that sets her sampler well apart from the more traditional samplers of her day. Mary