Samplings
When War Reached the Sewing Basket
(The Railway Station, 1866, a hand-colored engraving by Francis Holl after William Powell Frith. The Victorian railway network connected ports, mills, merchants, and customers, carrying the materials that eventually reached...
When War Reached the Sewing Basket
(The Railway Station, 1866, a hand-colored engraving by Francis Holl after William Powell Frith. The Victorian railway network connected ports, mills, merchants, and customers, carrying the materials that eventually reached...
The Story Behind Ada Davies' 1852 Welsh Sampler
When thirteen-year-old Ada Davies carefully stitched her sampler in 1852, she could not have imagined that more than 170 years later someone would still be admiring her work and searching...
The Story Behind Ada Davies' 1852 Welsh Sampler
When thirteen-year-old Ada Davies carefully stitched her sampler in 1852, she could not have imagined that more than 170 years later someone would still be admiring her work and searching...
Eliza Powell (b. 1821) A Life Stitched Between ...
(Eliza Powell, photo from the early 1860s was attached to her framed sampler) Eliza Powell Before the wide skies of Illinois and the long roads westward, there was a young...
Eliza Powell (b. 1821) A Life Stitched Between ...
(Eliza Powell, photo from the early 1860s was attached to her framed sampler) Eliza Powell Before the wide skies of Illinois and the long roads westward, there was a young...
When Color Was Made of Roots and Risk: The Art ...
If you’ve ever held an antique sampler up to the light and wondered why a once-bold pink now reads as soft peach or why a green looks oddly bruised and...
When Color Was Made of Roots and Risk: The Art ...
If you’ve ever held an antique sampler up to the light and wondered why a once-bold pink now reads as soft peach or why a green looks oddly bruised and...
Name Day or Namnsdag
Name days are an ancient practice, a relic of a time when birthdays were indulgences reserved for the elite. The tradition began centuries ago as a way of venerating the...
Name Day or Namnsdag
Name days are an ancient practice, a relic of a time when birthdays were indulgences reserved for the elite. The tradition began centuries ago as a way of venerating the...
Missing Letters in Early Samplers: The Evolving...
When browsing antique or reproduction samplers, you may notice something curious: some letters of the alphabet are missing. The most commonly omitted characters are J, U, W, sometimes V, and...
Missing Letters in Early Samplers: The Evolving...
When browsing antique or reproduction samplers, you may notice something curious: some letters of the alphabet are missing. The most commonly omitted characters are J, U, W, sometimes V, and...