- Maker
- Mkemon,(?) Sarah (age 13)
- Date made
- 1825
- Origin
- England
- Stitches
- Cross,
- In Bolton & Co.
- No
- Predominent Motif
- 1 alphabet: lowercase Numbers 1-10 and 1-14. Various wide and narrow cross bands including one with lions, one with 14 initials (classmates?), flowers. Reversing arcaded border all four sides.
- Inscription
- (Near the top): On Mortality / From Stately palaces we must remove / The narrow Lodgings of a Grave to prove / Leave the fair Train and light gilded Room / To lie alone benighted in the Tomb / God only is Immortal Man not so / Life to be paid upon Demand we owe / (At the bottom): Sarah Mcemon (?) his my name & with my Needle Work / the same * and by this work you plainly See the care / my friends they took of me ** Finished * May * 12 * 1825 * Aged 13 //
- Owner
- Museum of St Albans, Hertfordshire, UK
- Owner Private
- Museum of St Albans