The Scarlet Letter ~ The Milkmaid Reproduction Sampler Pattern Market 2023 acrylic thick yarn

acrylic thick yarn

printed full color homespun fabric with selected areas marked for stitching

Finished Size: 10 1/4" w x 10 1/4" h

lush with flowers and fruits

The Scarlet Letter ~ The Milkmaid Reproduction Sampler Pattern Market 2023 acrylic thick yarnFrom before the early eighteenth century, a change in attitudes regarding nature in western art evolved, resulting in a bucolic, pastoral ideal: an inhabited landscape, lush with flowers and fruits, featuring shepherds and farming activities, usually with a hint at romance. The actual lives of the shepherds and farm workers depicted were exaggerated and romanticized to the extreme. This ideal sort of landscape as depicted in many eighteenth and early