Chelsea Edition’s showrooms in Manhattan’s Fine Arts Building on East 59th Street proved a congenial setting for “The Admirable Art of The Needle,” an exhibition of English and American samplers and embroideries worked between 1650 and 1850.

Organized by American dealers M. Finkel & Daughter and Cora Ginsburg LLC in association with their English colleagues Maureen Morris and Alistair Sampson Antiques, the selling exhibition, which continued through October 26, was timed to coincide with the recent International Fine Art and Antique Dealers Show. Ginsburg and Sampson have collaborated in three other such ventures in Manhattan over the past three years.

Titi Halle of Cora Ginsburg, LLC, and Christopher Banks of Alistair Sampson Antiques with a few of their favorite things. Top, a needlework panel depicting scenes from the life of Abraham, English, circa 1660, $100,000 from Sampson. The image is from a Sixteenth Century Antwerp print source. Below it, a raisedwork and needlework mirror, English, third quarter of the Seventeenth Century, $275,000, from Ginsburg. Previously owned by Sir Frederick Richmond, chairman of the department stores Debenhams and Harvey Nichols, the celebrated needlework made the London News when it was auctioned in March 1932.

Pooling their inventories, the specialists achievedimpressive range in the 125 works on view. From petitpoint samplermotifs, $350 and up, to a Seventeenth Century mirror, $275,000,that was the talk of the town when it came to auction in London in1932, there were antiques to tempt many tastes.

Founded by Mona Perlhagen, Chelsea Editions opened in New York in 1996 at the encouragement of the late Jed Johnson, a designer with whom Perlhagen had often worked. Chelsea Editions supplies designers with hand embroidered fabrics inspired by antique English, French and American originals. The textiles are custom-made in India to the highest standards.

Endowed with 12-foot ceilings and abundant sunlight, the galleries of Chelsea’s reconfigured carriage house are the perfect scale for looking at embroidery. While the front gallery contained English pieces, the back gallery was largely American, an arrangement that suited Amy Finkel of M. Finkel & Daughter.

Essex, UK, dealer Maureen Morris with a circa 1640 spot sampler, $22,000, right. Left, from Sampson, is a panel from a set of crewelwork hangings elaborately worked in colored wools on a linen ground and depicting the Indian Tree of Life motif. The late Seventeenth Century English embroidery was $22,500.

“Many collectors of early needlework came through,” said AmyFinkel. The Philadelphia dealer sold her best piece, a 1795 ChesterCounty sampler illustrated in The Flowering of American FolkArt. She also parted with several Westtown School Quakersamplers; a linsey-woolsey sampler from Marlborough, Mass.; afamily record from Lynn, Mass.; and a rare Colonial Dutch samplerfrom Curacao, among others. To an institution she sold a rareCohasset, Mass., schoolgirl shadowbox constructed of molded and cutpaper.

“I’ve had follow-up from the show that may be exceptional,” said Cora Ginsburg owner and director Titi Halle, just back from exhibiting at Ars Nobilis Kunstmesse in Berlin, where she headed immediately after the close of “The Admirable Art of The Needle.”

Halle’s next effort is “Fascinating Modernity: The Spirit of Art Deco in French Textiles and Fashion, 1910-1940.” The joint presentation by Leonard Fox, Ltd, a rare books dealer, and Cora Ginsburg, LLC, runs from December 9 to 22 at Fox’s gallery at 790 Madison Avenue. Woven and printed textiles will be shown alongside the graphic designs that inspired them.

M. Finkel & Daughter sold this exceptional Chester County, Penn., sampler, (left photo) initialed F.A. and dated 1795. The desirable piece was owned by collectors Theodore H. Kapneck and, later, Ralph Esmerian, and is illustrated in The Flowering of American Folk Art. They also counted two Westtown School samplers (center photo) by Mary Emlen, dated 1800 and 1802, among their many sales. “The Admirable Art of The Needle” featured an assortment of Quaker samplers, both American and English. At right, Amy Finkel, the daughter in M. Finkel & Daughter, is flanked by her own daughter, Elizabeth Braemer and New York collector Irwin Warren.