Hands Across the Sea Samplers "Sarah Reymes 1770" Counted Cross Stitch Pattern, A Reproduction Sampler, Chart, Pattern Only

Hands Across the Sea Samplers "Sarah Reymes 1770" Counted Cross Stitch Pattern, A Reproduction Sampler, Chart, Pattern Only

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Hands Across the Sea Samplers "Sarah Reymes 1770" Counted Cross Stitch Pattern, A Reproduction Sampler, Chart, Pattern Only
  • Hands Across the Sea Samplers "Sarah Reymes 1770" Counted Cross Stitch Pattern, A Reproduction Sampler, Chart, Pattern Only
  • Hands Across the Sea Samplers "Sarah Reymes 1770" Counted Cross Stitch Pattern, A Reproduction Sampler, Chart, Pattern Only
  • Hands Across the Sea Samplers "Sarah Reymes 1770" Counted Cross Stitch Pattern, A Reproduction Sampler, Chart, Pattern Only
  • Hands Across the Sea Samplers "Sarah Reymes 1770" Counted Cross Stitch Pattern, A Reproduction Sampler, Chart, Pattern Only
  • Hands Across the Sea Samplers "Sarah Reymes 1770" Counted Cross Stitch Pattern, A Reproduction Sampler, Chart, Pattern Only
  • Hands Across the Sea Samplers "Sarah Reymes 1770" Counted Cross Stitch Pattern, A Reproduction Sampler, Chart, Pattern Only
Hands Across the Sea Samplers "Sarah Reymes 1770" Counted Cross Stitch Pattern, A Reproduction Sampler, Chart, Pattern Only

Hands Across the Sea Samplers "Sarah Reymes 1770" Counted Cross Stitch Pattern, A Reproduction Sampler, Chart, Pattern Only

$36.00
$36.00
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From Hands Across the Sea:

Each year Hands Across the Sea Samplers publishes a sampler which we consider to be not only beautiful but outstandingly so and worthy to be crowned our Queen of the May.

We are pleased to offer to you a stunning Norfolk sampler, Sarah Reymes 1770 our Queen of the May for the year 2022.

S Reymes 1770 is a “bobby dazzler” of a sampler. A glorious floral border surrounds decorative rows of vines laden with flowers, a band of Irish stitch (also known as Florentine and flame stitch), rows of alphabets worked both in cross stitch and eyelet stitch. The verse is worked with red silk and a small black dog sits incongruously atop a flower head. The sampler is reminiscent of the samplers stitched by Abigail Dingle in 1762 and Jane Brunton in 1763. We suspect that the three samplers were worked under the same needlework teacher in Norwich.

On the reverse of Sarah’s sampler it is recorded that this was “Mrs Lungley’s work”. From family history records we know that Sarah was 11 years old when she finished her sampler. She was born on Tuesday, July 17 in the year 1759 in Norwich in the county of Norfolk. She was named after a sister who was born and died in 1755. Sarah’s baptism on August 6 was recorded in the non-conformist records for the Old Meeting in Norwich.

Sarah’s parents were John Reymes and his wife Alice, née Collett. John’s family can be traced back to the early 1400s in Norfolk. We know that John was an eminent merchant and manufacturer. The Reymes family lived in St George Colegate, one of the mediaeval parishes of the city of Norwich.

Sarah married Samuel Lungley on Monday, September 5 in the year 1785. Samuel was from Long Melford in the county of Suffolk. Sarah and Samuel’s marriage was conducted by licence and both John and Alice were present. A report of the marriage appeared in the Norfolk Chronicle on Saturday, September 10. Samuel was a farmer, and we suspect a wealthy one.

Sarah died at the age of 33 on November 7, 1792, which is such a young age. We wonder if she died in childbirth. It must have been very sad for her husband and both her parents who outlived her.

Sarah’s sampler is predominantly worked with cross stitch laid over two threads of linen. The verse is worked in cross stitch over one thread of linen. Sarah also used Algerian eyelets over two and four threads, and Irish stitch. The sampler is suitable for confident beginners through to advanced needleworkers.

Thread Legend
Sarah’s sampler has been reproduced using a palette of twenty colours carefully matched to the colours found on the reverse of the sampler. The model was stitched using Soie 100.3 from Au Ver à Soie. We have included below conversions for Soie d’Alger and DMC.

Linen Sizes
The design area is 233 stitches (w) x 317 stitches (h). Our calculations have included a 3″ margin for finishing and framing. The model was stitched using Foxtail Millett by Legacy Linen which is available in 45ct. The comparable colours in Legacy’s Linen’s range are Victoria Sponge Cake in 30ct, Corn Tassel in 37ct and Sycamore Seedpod in 53/63ct.
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