The Scarlet Letter | Spot Motif Embroidered Picture circa 1640 C70 World-renowned for her beautiful fabrics

World-renowned for her beautiful fabrics and charming designs

Classic Colorworks Belle Soie: Limestone

Parchment Linen from Weeks Dye Works

* The color printed embroidery instructions

931 x 1 ~ Antique blue

The Scarlet Letter | Spot Motif Embroidered Picture circa 1640 C70 World-renowned for her beautiful fabricsThis 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