Rectangular sampler worked with multicolored (dk. and lt. green, beige-gold, yellow, blue-green, black/brown) silk threads on a bast fabric ground. The sampler is divided into horizontal bands featuring stylized floral designs alternating with areas of text including the Lord's Prayer, religious poems, and sayings. These are surrounded by a border (1-1/2' wide on top, 1-1/4' on bottom, and 1' on sides) of tulips and other stylized flowers and diamond patterns worked in multiple colors of silk with sawtooth patterns on both edges composed of right-angled triangles embroidered in green silk thread. In border area: 3/8' high upper case alphabet 'ABCDEFGHIKLMNOPQRSTVWXYZ' (no J or U) and on the same line the numbers 1 through 12 1st band: 3/16' lower case letters (with a few upper case letters at the end "abcedfghiklmnopqrfstvvWwXYyZ" (no j) and on the same line the numbers1-12 followed by a sawtooth design in yellow, green, and brown 2nd band: 1-7/8' wide with rosebud designs with multiple leaf stems and undulating vine motifs, edged on both sides with a yellow stepped pattern 3rd band: 1-7/8' wide with text worked in 3/8' upper and lower case letters: 'THE Heav'ns declare thy Glory, Lord which that alone can fill./ The Firmament and Stars exprefs their great Creator's Skill./ The Dawn of each returning Day, frefh Beams of Knowledge brings/And from the dark returns of Night divine Inftruction fprings.' This area is divided by a vertical band of embroidery in brown to the right of which is embroidered in the same lettering 'Favour is deceitful/ and beauty is vain but/ a woman that feareth ye Lord fhe fhall be praifed. (Note: In these inscriptions an archaic form of 's' written as 'f' is used.) 4th band: 1-7/8' wide with floral designs in beige-gold, yellow, and dark blue-green edged on both sides with a beige-gold sawtooth pattern. 5th band: 1-7/8' wide with text in 3/8' upper and lower case letters: 'OUR Father, which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come Thy will be done in/ earth As it is in heaven Give us this day our daily bread And forgive us our trefpaffes As we/ forgive them that trefpafs againft us And lead us not into temptation, But deliver us from evil,/ For thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory, for ever and ever. Amen" 6th band: 1-7/8' wide with tulips alternating with second stylized floral design within two yellow sawtooth border designs 7th band: 7/8' wide with text worked in 3/8' upper and lower case letters:"Give me O Lord thine early Grace Nor let my Soul complain,/ That the Young Morning of my Days Has all been fpent in vain."/ This area is divided by a vertical band of embroidery in brown threads to the right of which is embroidered in 3/8' upper and lower case letters: 'Bleffed are the pure in heart/ for they fhall fee God' 8th band: 7/8' to 1' wide with stepped border pattern in beige (and brown) on both sides and the text in 3/8' upper and lower case: 'Iean Monro Her Work Done in The Thirteenth Year of Her Age March th23/ 176[ ]' Conserved and reframed in new frame with dark painted wood and narrow gold colored liner, new glass (Munn #4855) by TCW 1992.