Cross Stitch Antiques | Prince Albert's Exhibition 1851 Pattern Album - A Source of Bristol Orphange Sampler Motifs Collections Etchings 3371 ~ Black brown

3371 ~ Black brown

numbers and motifs for needlework

Six antique marking samplers

History does chronicle what was happening in England at that time: Parliament passed the Sugar Act and also the Currency Act which prohibited the American colonies from issuing paper currency of any form

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Cross Stitch Antiques | Prince Albert's Exhibition 1851 Pattern Album - A Source of Bristol Orphange Sampler Motifs Collections Etchings 3371 ~ Black brownThe Antique: This chart contains all sixteen pattern pages from a tiny paper pattern album passed out as a souvenir in 1851 at Prince Alberts Crystal Palace Great Exhibition. They were mass produced inexpensively but are rarely found today due to the nature of the flimsy paper and the effects of time. Other similar pattern booklets were printed throughout Germany, France and England in the mid nineteenth century. This one in particular became a source