Samplings
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...
The World’s Oldest Samplers Aren’t European - T...
Long before alphabets, verses, and tidy border rows appeared on European “schoolgirl” samplers, needleworkers on Peru’s south coast were already stitching sprawling spot samplers, basically cloth “sketch-pads” dense with tiny...
The World’s Oldest Samplers Aren’t European - T...
Long before alphabets, verses, and tidy border rows appeared on European “schoolgirl” samplers, needleworkers on Peru’s south coast were already stitching sprawling spot samplers, basically cloth “sketch-pads” dense with tiny...
The Largest Cross-Stitch Ever Made: “The Battle...
If you love epic needlework, meet the queen of them all: a life-size, hand-stitched recreation of Jan Matejko’s 1878 painting The Battle of Grunwald. Charted by Polish designer Grzegorz Żochowski and...
The Largest Cross-Stitch Ever Made: “The Battle...
If you love epic needlework, meet the queen of them all: a life-size, hand-stitched recreation of Jan Matejko’s 1878 painting The Battle of Grunwald. Charted by Polish designer Grzegorz Żochowski and...
Stitched in Time: Marking Samplers and Women’s ...
What Were Marking Samplers? A marking sampler was typically a square of linen or cotton stitched with the alphabet, numbers, and sometimes simple motifs or verses. The original purpose was...
Stitched in Time: Marking Samplers and Women’s ...
What Were Marking Samplers? A marking sampler was typically a square of linen or cotton stitched with the alphabet, numbers, and sometimes simple motifs or verses. The original purpose was...