Embroidered sayings and picture sayings, which flourished between 1870 and 1930, are insightful cultural historical documents. Households of citizens, farmers, and workers adorned wall hangings, towels, box stripes, napkins, cushions, and blankets of all kinds with short, often rhymed proverbs. Today, many are searching for such old patterns. The collection of nearly 400 sayings ranges from moralizing proverbs like "Movement brings blessing" to somewhat cheerful poems such as "Marriage is an evil, a bittersweet yoke, it resembles an onion, you cry and yet eat it," and includes explicit confessions like "O man, consider well, your greatest enemy is alcohol, but it is written in the Bible, you shall also love your enemies.".