Embroidery Sampler - Ann Salmon
1787Brown wooden frame with glass front.
Embroidered fabric underneath glass
Ann Salmon finished this sampler on 21st March 1787 at 12 years of age
Details
Details
A typed label at back of frame has the following text:
Busselton Historical Society
A Sampler
(Alphabet repeated thrice - numerals 1-15)
Isaias 55 6
Seek Him who is all renown
Seek Him while he may be found
Seek ye Him without delay
Seek Him while its call'd todays.
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Call on Him that ever near
Call on Him by humble prayer
Call on Him with one accord
And put your trust upon the Lord.
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Ann Salmon finished this sampler March, the Twenty First One Thousand Seven Hundred and Eighty Seven in the Twelfth year of her age
A needlework sampler is a piece of embroidery or cross-stitching produced as a 'specimen of achievement',
demonstration or a test of skill in needlework. It often includes the alphabet, figures, motifs, decorative borders
and sometimes the name of the person who embroidered it and the date.
