The Florence Griswold Museum is presenting an exhibition of samplers and embroidered pictures made by young women during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. With Needle and Brush: Schoolgirl Embroidery from the Connecticut River Valley does not have a large website but there are a few examples and a …
A bit of favourites tidy up led me to this interesting website. This collection of Embroidery from Boston is exhibited at The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA). There are a few band samplers in the collection so if you have been following the regular series about my band sampler …
The Girl on the Wall, is an interesting piece of autobiographical embroidery. This sampler is the life story of Jean Baggot told via interlocking ‘circles of life’ which act a framework to illustrate each narrative. This video interview explains how it came about and why the piece was made. There …
I was delighted to discover this 4 meter long band sampler. I have seen an Dutch/Australian band sampler that is similar to this one. Same sort of length and the same mix of practical stitchery and embroidery. Needless to say this tradition, in part informed my own sampler. Thanks …
The Tennessee Sampler Survey website states that their aim it to document and preserve Tennessee’s needlework heritage. To quote the site “The Tennessee Sampler Survey was founded as a not-for-profit organization in 2004. Our mission is to document and preserve Tennessee’s needlework heritage. Our research includes documenting Tennessee samplers made …
I occasionally get emails about the length of my band sampler asking if it would make the Guinness book of records. It would not, as the UK Embroiderers’ guild hold the record. You can read about it here “With the help of over 7,000 participants of all ages and abilities …
