Casgliadau Arlein

WOOLLEN CANVAS, embroidered with coloured silks in cross stitch. In the middle, within a rectangular compartment formed by a floral wavy stem, are the following verses and inscription:

"Religion should our thoughts engage / Amidst our youthful bloom / It will fit us for declining age / And for the silent tomb / More needful this than glitt'ring wealth / Or ought the world bestows / Not reputation food nor health / Can give us such repose

Ann Edwards Ages 13 July 1829”.

Above and below the inscription is a row of conventional flowering plants symmetrically arranged. There is a border of a narrow wavy stem with blossoms.

Source: Guide to the Collection of Samplers & Embroideries (Cardiff: National Museum of Wales, 1939) by F.G. Payne.