SOLD Zerlina Blitz's Exquisite Early Two Panel Darning Sampler (Some Loss) carved car Color richer and black bolder

Color richer and black bolder in person

6 3/8 w x 5 15/16 t x 1” d at hooks

making the whole thing feel like a present

The glass has a nice weight to it

circa 1960

SOLD Zerlina Blitz's Exquisite Early Two Panel Darning Sampler (Some Loss) carved car Color richer and black bolderSpotting this as I walked into an antiques show in central Mass last weekend set my heart racing and made me swoon. I love a darning sampler, and this is an early one, late 1700s or early 1800s would be my guess. Most of the early ones one sees are Dutch, with the complexly patterned darning samples most typically organized in an orderly, linear sort of composition; those are gorgeous, but to my eye this more freeform one is even more beautiful feels