Getting lost on the site of the Fine Arts Museum San Francisco

I have been poking around the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco site. With 82,000 digitised art works there is a feast of eye candy for any one. I got lost for a couple of hours in the My gallery section of the site. Then started using keywords such embroidery, …

A Crazy quilt online in the Memorial Hall Museum Digital Collection

Browsing the Memorial Hall Museum Digital Collection led me to discover this Crazy Quilt with a Netted Border. The site has options to zoom in on the image and take a really good look at the details (the icons are found on the right hand side of the screen.) The …

Australian needlework samplers

The other day Penny of Back Valley Seasons wrote a post about her Grandmothers sampler which made me poke around the net to see if there were any Australian needlework samplers were online. The powerhouse museum has a sampler worked by Isabel Buist (1839) at age 9. As the blurb …