Handwoven and Embroidered Textile by Sarah Sanborn (NH, 1732-1792) with Family Note native amercAN Frame shows a little wear

Frame shows a little wear and surface loss at bottom right corner

and with the softening/fading to the color of the purple construction paper enhancing a sense of timelessness--really a very lovely and rather transcendent little piece

super lush and painterly on the larger and looking as if applied with finger tips on the smaller

To me the writing (and paper) here looks c

designed by C

Handwoven and Embroidered Textile by Sarah Sanborn (NH, 1732-1792) with Family Note native amercAN Frame shows a little wearI love finding very old things with notes about their histories carefully attached to them; we should all have such presence of mind. And the note here, written in 1936 either by grand niece Glaydis S. Little herself or someone who knew her, tells us this finely handwoven textile, embroidered with the name Sarah Sanborn, dates to the 18th century. And a search for Sarah Sanborn immediately turns up a Sarah Sanborn, born in 1732, in Hampton, Rockingham