Very Naive 19th Century New England Alphabet Sampler with Zig Zag on (Equally Expressive) Homespun carved wooden stick spanning Boston

spanning Boston

Certainly there have been plenty of tornadoes in Kansas to document the effects of

watercolor and ink bright and crisp and bold

very solid and sturdy with no structural issues

the majority backed with cloth and dotted with pinpricks from having been used

Very Naive 19th Century New England Alphabet Sampler with Zig Zag on (Equally Expressive) Homespun carved wooden stick spanning BostonSo many different sorts of samplers to love, for different reasons. As far as alphabet samplers go (simple ones like this are also called marking samplers), I see a lot of lovely early examples around New England, with precisely embroidered, densely packed letters marching along perfectly straight lines, and I do very much admire them. But much less often do I come across an example as naive, and so, as expressive, as this one. And I think small ones