Antique Needlework Sampler on Linen with Triple Alphabet, House, Flowers seagrass I walked in to a

I walked in to a recent estate sale and this little house was the very first thing I saw

The face of the disk shows brown where it was once white

plus a decorative border of flowers and vines and corresponding carved edge

their faces veiled by scarves

but I have not been able to find one now that I'm looking

Antique Needlework Sampler on Linen with Triple Alphabet, House, Flowers seagrass I walked in to aI'd guess the young woman who created this sampler did not expect it would be around 200 or so years later, so may not have thought much about using very light color threads that would more or less disappear as it aged. The linen backing and needlework itself has held up extremely well and appears almost completely intact, but the linen has darkened and the needlework faded, so it lives now as a very sweet but quite subtle piece, which I love but