Fig. 28.—Border of Margaret Knowles’s Sampler. Aged 9. a.d. 1738.
Margaret Knowles’s sampler ([Fig. 28]), made in the next year—A.D. 1738—is the earliest example I know of the use on a border of that universal favourite the pink, which is oftentimes hardly distinguishable from the corn blue-bottle. In the present instance it is, however, flattened almost out of recognition, whilst the design is spoilt by the colossal proportions of the connecting stem. In the second row of the sampler, [Fig. 24], it is seen in a much simpler form, and it will also be found in [Plate VI.]
Fig. 29.—Border to Sampler by Elizabeth Turner. a.d. 1771.
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