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Tuesday 31 May 2011

Souvenir

   I acquired this little embroidery a few years ago, it features delicate flowers stitched on gauze in petit point with silk threads.

   In the Victorian era cards, gifts and small embroideries often had the French word ' Souvenir' on them....maybe this had been a present to a departing friend ?

Souvenir
   
Neat, and tiny stitches in silk
   





3 comments:

  1. It is beautiful, is it cross stitched?????

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  2. No ! It is all in petit point. The stitches are really tiny, and even. For sure the work of a lady, not a child !

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  3. Oh how beautiful! Shame that it's in such an insignificant frame. It would make such a pretty gift.

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