Thanks everyone for the comments on yesterdays post. I thought I was over reacting. I love needlework samplers. I have been poking about the sampler and freebie cross stitch sites as small cross stitch and even weave motifs can be worked on crazy quilting blocks using the waste canvas method. …
Stephen Sollins has recently exhibited his “deconstructed” embroidered samplers from his Elegy Series. Sollins takes samplers and removes the stitching, counts the stitches by colour and then embroiders a modernist geometric grid over the top. I have very mixed feelings about this practice as although a trace of the original …
Patterns of Childhood: Samplers 1640-1900 is an exhibition of forty samplers selected from Glasgow Museums’ collections. The site presents information about the exhibit and a slide show online.
Another handy link as a result of a bookmark tidy up. For anyone who is into fonts I am sure that they are aware of 1001 Freefonts as it is huge resource online and highly popular. However, some may not be aware of the site. Some of these fonts may …
I love Saturday mornings as I often get to poke about the net before the rest of the family get up. Coffee in hand I settled to catch up on some blog reading and feel the need to highlight a couple of gems that have turned up this week. Take …
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 …
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 …
