Embroidered Silk Needlework Love Token, 18th century. Plain-woven gold silk panel worked in white, pink, blue, and green silk threads to center a ...

Watercolor-painted and Printed Paper Box, inscribed Joseph Grant and H.D. Erfield, 1837. Rectangular paperboard box with conforming cover opening ...

Framed Crewelwork Fragment, America or England, 18th century. Large floral sprig pattern worked in bright yellow, green, pink, and white wool on a...

Three Framed Cut Silhouettes, America, c. 1830. Assembled group includes two cut-out women's profiles over block-printed shoulder and torso on whi...

Chip-carved and Pierced Braided Tassel Ornament, dated 1650. Worked from a solid plank of wood to depict five-part braid with tassel end on both s...

Painted Bride's Box, Scandinavia, dated 1782. Oblate pine lid and bottom with lapped bentwood walls secured at fingers by sewn flax thread, exteri...

Four Crary Family Samplers, Connecticut, 1790-1832. Pristine framed samplers, worked primarily in cross stitch, queen's stitch, and broderie angla...

Framed Needlepoint Sampler, signed Caroline Emerson, May 1801. Large plain-woven linen panel bordered with stem- and satin-stitched floral vine bo...

Framed Needlepoint Sampler, Mary Ann Waterman Arnold (1821-44), Rhode Island, 1831. Large loosely plain-woven canvas worked in tapestry- and cross...

'Philene' Needlepoint Sampler, America, mid-19th century. Linen canvas worked in cross stitch with two registers of alphabet above one row with fa...

Framed Needlepoint Sampler, signed Albertina Bronson Caulkin, 1842. Finely executed square sampler with silk, wool, and cotton threads worked in c...

Silk on Linen Sampler, Esther Miller, Pennsylvania, 1782. Plain-woven linen ground worked in cross stitch and queen's stitch, having seven rows of...

Quaker Needlepoint Sampler with Stitched Hem, Lydia Smith (b. 1792), Smithfield, Rhode Island, 12 July 1803. Plain-woven linen panel finished on a...

Framed Needlepoint Sampler, signed Lydia Gifford (age 8), Westport, Massachusetts, 1822. Plain-weave canvas vertically-oriented with twelve rows o...

Jenckes Street School Needlepoint Sampler, signed Ruth Sheldon Mason, Providence, Rhode Island, 1832. Square plain-woven canvas worked in cross st...

Framed Needlepoint Sampler, signed Elizabeth Scott Fullton (age 11), 1799. Plain-woven linen ground worked in thread dyed mellow tones of pastel p...

'Be Wise in Thy Love' Framed Needlepoint Sampler, Lydia Chapman, 4 July 1796. Plain-woven linen canvas wrought in stem, satin, chain, and cross st...

Lauder-Nielson Embroidery Sampler, America, early 20th century. Coarse plain-woven linen canvas worked in various thicknesses of dyed wool, cotton...

Framed Needlepoint Sampler, Priscilla Goodman, 1788. Narrow plain-woven panel worked in cross stitch with top registers of alphabet and numbers ab...

Framed Needlepoint Sampler, signed Ann Maria Harr (age 10), 1808. Fine plain-woven canvas worked in colorful threads, including silk, having a cro...

Three Framed Needlepoint Samplers, America, late 18th/early 19th century. Assembled group of vertically-oriented samplers, the two longer panels i...

Framed 'Prepare to meet thy God' Needlepoint Picture, signed Rachel Howe, 1833. Fine plain-weave canvas worked predominantly in cross-stitched woo...

Framed Needlepoint Crane Family Register, Rebekah Crane (age 13), Canton, Massachusetts, 1 October 1824. Fine plain-woven canvas worked in chain, ...

Two Silk Needlepoint Pictures, signed Milla Tucker, 1808. Each small square giltwood-framed picture worked in silk satin-stitch on satin-weave gro...

Framed Silk and Linen Needlepoint Sampler, signed Polly Coburn (age 11), New England, 1796. Plain-woven linen ground worked in satin, chain, and c...

Large Framed Needlepoint Sampler, signed Elizabeth Stackhouse (b. circa 1792), 1805. Rectangular plain-woven linen panel worked in cross-stitch, q...