SOLD RR's 1836 Red and White Darning Sampler on Homespun Linen in Period Gilded Frame with Original Glass dowel Plenty of ingrained dirt and

Plenty of ingrained dirt and stains as pictured

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

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

as if looking toward the future and imagining a time when the ancient Japanese sport of Sumo wrestling

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 Plenty of ingrained dirt andI 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.