Month #8 KIT of Elizabeth Martin circa 1789, A Mountmellick Irish Quaker Sampler wiht 37 ct Corn Tassell by Legacy Linen and 100/3 silks (Copy)
Month #8 KIT of Elizabeth Martin circa 1789, A Mountmellick Irish Quaker Sampler wiht 37 ct Corn Tassell by Legacy Linen and 100/3 silks (Copy)
A rare and historic Irish Quaker sampler stitched in the style of the Mountmellick, Ireland Quaker school by the superintendent’s young daughter, while a student there or shortly after, sharing a number of common and distinctive elements found on other samplers known to have been worked at Mountmellick.
Stitch Count: 290 w x 468 h
Cross Stitch over two and over one for name and verse.
Kit includes 37 ct Corn Tassel Legacy Linen and 8 shades of Needlepoint Ink silks
This is the verse:
O may I with myself agree,
And never covet what I see!
Content me with an humble shade,
My passions tam’d, my wishes laid;
For while our wishes wildly roll,
We banish quiet from the soul:
“Tis thus the busy beat the air,
And misers gather wealth and care.