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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;2manybooks, post: 9490781, member: 8267&quot;]I was thinking that the reds, greens and yellow are awfully bright for 1778, but it is an unusual poem to use.</p><p><br /></p><p>The framing looks a little haphazard. At least the sampler is laying flat. In many older mounts that I have seen the edges of the sampler have been wrapped around a board and tacked to the back. </p><p><br /></p><p>A safer mount would be to use a piece of acid-free mat board, larger than the sampler, with washed muslin stretched over it (don&#039;t use any adhesives). Then stitch the sampler to the muslin (using a curved needle). When framing, a mat or spacers should be used so that the glass does not rest directly on the sampler.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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