Category: Samplers

Katrina Relief Sampler


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There is a long history of quilters, knitters, and stitchers of all types picking up their needles and making things for fundraising drives. Stitchers raise money for both research such as research into breast cancer and other illness and whenever there is a catastrophe within days there are projects launched …

Mourning Samplers


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I have been wandering about, down the paths of textile history, poking about in digital collections online and found a few snippits about the connections between mourning pictures and samplers. Around 1800 mourning samplers became not only popular but conventionalized. Mourning pictures heavily influenced mourning embroidery. So this is a …

Samplers and chocolate:


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I know that just after Easter is not the time to talk about chocolate. If you are like me you are on chocolate overload but did you ever wonder where Whitman’s Chocolates got their package design? The birth of the Sampler is fully described on their site. A Tale of …