Antique Framed Needlework on Linen with Towers of Flowers and Steamboat, Initialed LAO metal object Poem 1: A Present

Poem 1: A Present

warm and radiant

with the name Alouisa Johnson written in pencil just below it

and the processes for making them all feel so very modern

I have included a photo

Antique Framed Needlework on Linen with Towers of Flowers and Steamboat, Initialed LAO metal object Poem 1: A PresentThis one I found near impossible to photograph well through the glass, so please forgive the poor quality of the images, shot in both natural and artificial light, which do it no justice. I believe it is safe to categorize this one as a sampler, with the LAO who initialed it clearly practicing her needlepoint skills across three vertical spans of what I read as towers of flowers, rising from the three urns opening up along the bottom. And then this