The Chart for this samplers has been just completed.
I was inspired by a photo I found in the catalogue SAMPLERS at the Victoria & Albert Museum. It shows a 19 th century Moroccan sampler in magnificent colours and different stiches: double running and satin stich.
For my chart I reconstructed a couple of the main motifs of this sampler and translated the stiches into cross stich. I think a reconstruction of the blaze of colour used in the original sampler would fail, because these colours have now faded due by age and UV rays and would be extremely difficult to copy and thus appear authentic.
So I decided to choose a monochrome natural colour to underline the extraordinary and remarkable charm in its structure, density and grafical succinctness.

The result is a sampler in 'Moroccan Style'.

Source:
Samplers from the Victoria and Albert Museum, Clare Browne and Jennifer Wearden, V&A Publications, 1999