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Deerfield Pocket
This pocket is hand drawn to imitate the irregularities found in the original and because of this is purposefully drawn crooked. This shows that not all 18th century handwork was perfectly executed. The kit comes complete with crewel yarns, linen tapes, linen pocket back, needle and instructions. $35.00 |
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Bristol Pocket
This kit includes hand drawn design on linen, red crewel yarns, linen tapes for binding and linen tapes for ties. This monochromatic pocket is easy to embroider using outline stitch $35.00 |
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Newport Pocket
This pocket kit includes everything to make a very authentic 18th century pocket. $40.00 |
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Wethersfield Pocket
This colorful pocket follows the tradition of a central motif rising from a mound or pot and dates from the early to mid 18th century. $45.00 |
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Cambridge Pocket
The original pocket was cut from a fragment of another textile, probably a bedhanging. Because of this, when making this pocket kit you first embroider then cut through the embroidery to make the pocket slit. $45.00 |
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Hatfield Pocket
This pocket kit includes everything to make a very authentic 18th century pocket. $40.00 |
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Salem Pocket
This pocket kit includes everything to make a very authentic 18th century pocket. $45.00 |
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Portsmouth Pocket
This pocket kit includes everything to make a very authentic 18th century pocket. $45.00 |
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Blue Thistle 18th Century Stomacher Kit
This kit comes complete with hand drawn design to imitate walnut ink on linen, crewel wool, embroidery needle and instructions. $ 35.00 |
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Berries 18th Century Stomacher Kit
This kit comes complete with hand drawn design to imitate walnut ink on linen, crewel wool, embroidery needle and instructions. $30.00 |
Carnation 18th Century Stomacher Kit
This kit comes complete with hand drawn design to imitate walnut ink on linen, crewel wool, embroidery needle and instructions. $ 35.00 |
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Pocketbook KitsWorked linen pocketbooks were often made in New England between 1740 and 1790, but reached their peak of popularity between 1760 and 1780. This type of worked pocketbook was more popular in America than in England. They were obviously valued by their owners, and mention of them can be found in wills, inventories, and diaries of the period. While leather pocketbooks were more common, being commercially available, more of these hand-worked examples survive, perhaps because of personal and sentimental reasons. Both sexes carried these pocketbooks. Women carried theirs inside their pockets (the large, U-shaped cloth bags tied at the waist and worn under the outer skirt). Inside the pocketbook, a woman might carry buttons, a thimble, hooks, needles, and sundry papers. Men usually carried business and personal documents, coins and paper money in theirs; hence women's pocketbooks were usually smaller than men's. The pocketbook itself was usually lined with a brightly color wool or silk fabric, and given a stiff interlining of pasteboard. The ends were bound by an extension of these binding tapes, or a metal clasp. Cross stitched pocketbooks of this period are quite rare, with Irish stitch being the most common technique used. Some examples worked in Queen stitch survive, usually executed in silk rather than wool because of the intricacy of that stitch. Most of them were made with wool floss. Click here for worsted tape for binding and finishing the pocketbooks |
ES POCKETBOOK CIRCA 1780Linen count and finished size: 30-count same as the original: 9" × 8" when opened completely and flat Kit with wool floss: $ 55.00 |
Origin and date: American 18th century  |
ANN DAVIS POCKETBOOK 1762This flame stitched, single pocketbook, found in Newburyport, Massachusetts, was originally worked in simple Irish stitch, in still brilliant rainbow hues. Linen Count and finished size: 35-count same as original 5 3/8" × 3 1/2" Kit with cotton floss: $38.00 |
Origin and date: American 18th century  |
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SUSANNA LANE 1776Susanna's sampler exhibits many characteristics typical of eastern Massachusetts samplers of the last quarter of the 18th century, including the geometric trellis-like border, the sawtooth satin stitch inner border, and the distinctive shape of the central flowerpot. Rated: Intermediate Kit with Cotton floss $38.00 |
Origin and date: 1776  |
JEAN SCRIMGEOWR 1779Reproduced from a brilliant Scottish sampler of 1779, this piece is finely worked. Stylized pansies across the top symbolize the Holy Trinity, while doves near the center perch on the Fountain of Eternal Life. Adam and Eve stand beneath their umbrella-shaped tree, surrounded by various heraldic motifs including a peacock, dogs, and crowns. Begin the high celestial strain my raivshed (sic) soul and sing a solemn hymn of grateful praise to Heavns Almighty King Rated: Intermediate Graph: $7.00 |
Origin and date: Scottish 1779  |
RUTHEY MACKAY CIRCA 1780A very pretty, nicely balanced, quirky little American marking sampler, Ruthey distinguished her work by stitching the large, graceful flower in the lower third, flanked by eager little birds. The last two digits of the date disappear under the edge of the frame, which perhaps Ruthey did not mind much in later years as it kept her true age a mystery. Rated: Beginner Kit with cotton Floss $27.00 Sale Price 17.99 |
Origin and date: New England, circa 1780  |
HANNAH BREED 1756This American band sampler was originally worked in Lynn, Massachusetts. Rows of lettering are intermixed with rows of sheep and cows, a verse and floral bands. The verse reads: Hannah Breed is my name Rated: Intermediate Chart only $7.00 |
Origin and date: Lynn, Massachusetts, 1756  |
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