The Scarlet Letter | Spot Motif Embroidered Picture circa 1640 C70 Classic Colorworks Belle Soie: Limestone

Classic Colorworks Belle Soie: Limestone

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The Scarlet Letter | Spot Motif Embroidered Picture circa 1640 C70 Classic Colorworks Belle Soie: LimestoneThis extraordinary piece of seventeenth century needlework was originally executed with fine silks on a linen ground, in tent stitch, and is composed of many different slips or spot motifs, cleverly fitted together. Many of these motifs have symbolic and or heraldic significance, and they can be traced directly from the drawings in Peter Stents pattern books, published in England in the mid seventeenth century. Almost identical to drawings in Stent