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Stephen & Carol Huber:  Dealers in antique needlework samplers, silk embroidery, cross stitch, tapestries.


antique silk embroidered memorial by Sophia Barney

Sophia Barney wrought this Massachusetts silk embroidered memorial c.1810.

Antique silk embroidery needlework memorial to Greenawalt 

Silk embroidered memorial to Greenawalt from Chambersburg, PA


 Antique sampler antique silk embroidery, antique needlework, needlepoint , petitpoint, tapisteries, American samplers or English samplers, and needlework pictures.

Matilda Chadwick silk embroidered memorial, Duxbury, Massachusetts 1826

 

Antique sampler, silk embroridery, needlework picture, tapestry, canvaswork pictrue

Silk Embroideried Memorial to: Mrs. Hannah Richardson, and John Gilson

Antique sampler, silk embroridery, needlework picture, tapestry, canvaswork pictrue

Mary Gould Memorial, Massachusetts c. 1810

 Antique sampler antique silk embroidery, antique needlework, needlepoint , petitpoint, tapisteries, American samplers or English samplers, and needlework pictures.

Charlotte Koon Memorial, York, PA, dated 1821


   

 Antique sampler, silk embroridery, needlework picture, tapestry, canvaswork pictrue

Balch School Memorial to John G. & John A. Hillhouse, Providence, RI c. 1806.

       
 

     
Memorials: Although memorials were usually a form of "silk embroidered pictures" they deserve a category to themselves. A memorial needlework picture was one of the expected accomplishments of a young cultured girl c1780 to c1840. These typically show a tomb, mourning figures, and weeping willow trees. They are beautiful, sensitive, and graceful works of needlework art that are highly sought after by the top collectors of antique samplers and needlework. Contrary to popular belief the stitchers of these memorials were not necessarily in mourning over the loss of a loved one but merely creating a popular form of needlework. If they had no one close enough to them to memorialize they may dedicate it to a well known figure that had died or inscribe the tomb "sacred to friendship" or simply leave it blank.

STEPHEN & CAROL HUBER
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