Brontë Samplers

This might well be one of the loveliest things we have come across since BrontëBlog was born.

A couple of French blogs have recently stitched samplers based on those made by the very young Brontës. All Brontë girls - Maria and Elizabeth included - as well as their mother and aunt, worked on a similar sampler when they were 10 years old at most. The chosen quotes from the Bible fit exactly into each girl's stereotypical character - Emily's the most simple one, with no quotation this first time around. After these samplers were completed, they would go on to stitch - under the close scrutiny of their Aunt - a much more sophisticated sampler, this time made up by a more lengthy quotation from the Bible, Emily too.

Aux Deux Mercières stitched Anne's sampler with a lovely outcome. This inspired the author of Tempus Fugit to write a very informative posts on these samplers and to post pictures of the one she stitched following Emily's example.

Via Tempus Fugit, we have discovered the website from where the patterns can be purchased. Here's Charlotte's, Emily's and Anne's*. It would be great if Maria's and Elizabeth's and even Maria Branwell's and Elizabeth Branwell's were included too.

There is no need to say that this falls right into the category of Lovely Christmas Present, of course.

*Notice how Charlotte is the only one to get the sequence T-U-V-W right!
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