What is this Vintage Sampler Pattern? by: Anonymous
I have never seen this pattern before, can't help with that.
Older needlework and newer work that copies the style are called samplers because they were a sample of a stitch or a pattern. Before there were magazines and patterns available everywhere, girls learned their stitches by making samplers. This was an item that was used like we a book now; we look at it and copy it. That was the function of samplers and why they almost always included alphabets. Not everyone could read or recall how a letter was shaped to stitch a monogram.
You can usually tell a hand-painted canvas from a commercially printed one by an artist's signature or an inventory number. Brush strokes are another clue.
