SOLD Zerlina Blitz's Exquisite Early Two Panel Darning Sampler (Some Loss) Canadian wood carving 5" tall x 6 7/8

5" tall x 6 7/8 widest

especially for their faces

there appears to be a black mark on the bottom but I cannot make it out against the dark brown

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active members also included Bill Barrell (b

SOLD Zerlina Blitz's Exquisite Early Two Panel Darning Sampler (Some Loss) Canadian wood carving 5" tall x 6 7/8Spotting this as I walked into an antiques show in central Mass last weekend set my heart racing and made me swoon. I love a darning sampler, and this is an early one, late 1700s or early 1800s would be my guess. Most of the early ones one sees are Dutch, with the complexly patterned darning samples most typically organized in an orderly, linear sort of composition; those are gorgeous, but to my eye this more freeform one is even more beautiful feels