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Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales
LINEN CANVAS, unbleached, embroidered with coloured wools in cross stitch. Various detached designs: conventional flowers and flowering plants, some in pots and vases, lions, stags, birds and crowns, those in the lower half being symmetrically arranged. At the bottom is the inscription: "The rose is a flower that fadeth away bu (sic) / a virtuous woman will never decay / Jane Miles Aged 9 yers (sic) 1843". There is a border of a wavy stem with strawberries. Made by donor's mother at Caerphilly, Glamorganshire.
Source: Guide to the Collection of Samplers & Embroideries (Cardiff: National Museum of Wales, 1939) by F.G. Payne.
