Sweet, Small Antique Alphabet Sampler with Flamestitch Practice brushes Handthrown and stamped Weaver ME

Handthrown and stamped Weaver ME Kiln Works on the underside

Another terrific set of domino playing cards

clearly by the same artist

I think it was quite wise as well as resourceful of women not to let cigar silks/ribbons go to waste

it would be easy to tie a string or ribbon around the end and hang it from the wall just to admire it

Sweet, Small Antique Alphabet Sampler with Flamestitch Practice brushes Handthrown and stamped Weaver METhere are so many keen sampler dealers and collectors out there that for the most part I leave them alone. But, occasionally I find one that calls to me like an out of order alphabet I had a few months ago, and this one, with its patch of colorful flame stitching at bottom right, at odds with the careful linearity of the rest, and like a little abstract explosion of energy. Certainly this was just a little practice sampler and so here she was (a girl