Antique Framed Needlework on Linen with Towers of Flowers and Steamboat, Initialed LAO metal object Recto and Verso

Recto and Verso

with the name Alouisa Johnson written in pencil just below it

and the processes for making them all feel so very modern

The black striped whites of her blue eyes and the marvelous lines of her black hair really get me

Antique Framed Needlework on Linen with Towers of Flowers and Steamboat, Initialed LAO metal object Recto and VersoThis one I found near impossible to photograph well through the glass, so please forgive the poor quality of the images, shot in both natural and artificial light, which do it no justice. I believe it is safe to categorize this one as a sampler, with the LAO who initialed it clearly practicing her needlepoint skills across three vertical spans of what I read as towers of flowers, rising from the three urns opening up along the bottom. And then this