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ABOVE: Doorstep-a box weighted with pebbles, then covered with fabric and needlepoint. [WENHAM HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION AND MUSESUM, WENHAM, MASS.]
Women had way too much time in their hands back then...
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ABOVE: Doorstep-a box weighted with pebbles, then covered with fabric and needlepoint. [WENHAM HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION AND MUSESUM, WENHAM, MASS.]
Women had way too much time in their hands back then...
The Queen of Sheba, Admiring the Wisdom of Solomon. Boston needleworked picture from 1744 by Mary Williams
Marblehead sampler 1790, Eunice Hooper
Sampler by Patty Fowler, Salem 1798
Boston needlework picture detail. 1745-55
Watertown Massachusetts Family Record, 1820s. There are about 20 of these large family record needlepoints known. The unidentified School was probably in Watertown as well. I sold this one about 25 years ago
Mary Cornwell did this needlework memorial in 1817, coastal Massachusetts
Needlework coat of arms of the Gilman family, made by Rebecca Ives Gilman in 1763. Beverly Massachusetts.