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On the Cover:
Tribute Sampler, designed
by Kay Hanson Cavnar and
stitched by Sheri
Swope,
the First-Place Winner in the
PieceWork Sampler Contest.
Chinese sewing basket,
needle case, and scissors
courtesy of
Loene McIntyre,
Fort Collins, Colorado.
Photograph by Joe Coca.
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Samplers from the Victoria
and Albert Museum
The sampler collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum reflects
the museum's recognition of the contribution made by samplers toward
documenting the history of embroidery, its teaching, and practice.
Started in l863, the collection now includes more than 700 samplers
from around the world dating from the fourteenth or fifteenth century
to the early twentieth century.
Clare Browne
Painted with Thread: The Art of American Embroidery
Two Samplers
Samplers made by Elizabeth Briggs and Sarah Prescott in the early
nineteenth century, now in the collection of the Peabody Essex Museum,
display the needlework skills learned by young women in New England.
Paula Bradstreet Richter
A Surprise from a Chest of Drawers
Crochet sampler books preserved patterns for needleworkers before
printed patterns became common. One crochet sampler book dating
from the late nineteenth century recently emerged from obscurity—in
an estate-sale chest of drawers—and is on exhibit at the Library
Company in Philadelphia.
Gwen Blakley Kinsler
The Nineteenth Century's Stamping Blocks for
Embroidery
While iron-on transfers and disappearing ink pens are the methods
of choice today, stitchers in the nineteenth century relied on handmade
wooden blocks for transferring embroidery patterns to fabric. A
variety of these tools are now in the collection of the National
Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution, in Washington,
D.C.
Sheryl De Jon
The National Museum of Scotland
The National Museum, which opened in l998, was built to showcase
the history of Scotland through the preservation of her artifacts.
Textiles are an important part of this history and enthusiasts will
find more than a few surprises in the museum's collection.
Deborah Pulliam
Things
to Make
PieceWork Sampler Contest
First-Place Winner Tribute Sampler
This sampler, designed by Kay Hanson Cavnar of Carrollton, Texas,
and stitched by Sheri Swope of Garland, Texas, includes a variety
of embroidery techniques and traditional sampler motifs as a tribute
to stitchers of the past.
Second-Place Winner Tree of Life and Knowledge
Karla Caldwell and Lisa Croy of Lakewood, Colorado, chose cross-stitches,
Parisian knots, and diamond eyelets to create this Tree of Life
and Knowledge sampler in honor of their Bohemian ancestry.
Third-Place Winner Come into My Garden
Sherry Del Rizzo of Oakville, Ontario, Canada, combines stumpwork,
ribbon embroidery, and counted-thread techniques to bring flora
and fauna to life in her garden sampler.
A Knitted Lace Sampler
A variety of popular lace patterns comprise this sampler designed
and knitted by Linda Pratt.
A Needle Case to Embroider
The motif on this embroidered needle case, designed and stitched
by Sheryl De Jong, comes from one of the nineteenth-century embroidery
stamping blocks in her collection.
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