Sajou Thread Cards - Boxed Set of Six; Various Designs 32 Count This piece was inspired by

This piece was inspired by an early Pennsylvania fraktur done in watercolors

a coastal town in North Yorkshire

Kathy Barrick - The Embroideress Stocking

IDL 1806 & EH 1811

The Sampler is most likely from Belgium and was made during the First World War or as a remembrance of the war (1914-1917)

Sajou Thread Cards - Boxed Set of Six; Various Designs 32 Count This piece was inspired byThese cards are perfect for winding your own skeins of thread. In days gone by, before the invention of domestic sewing machines, they were used for selling thread, mainly linen. They were beautifully illustrated and the surprise was to discover the image under the thread, the start of the consumer society The thread brands had simple names representing easily recognisable objects. This was at a time when a large part of the population could neither