Getting on the cross stitch sampler train! I’m excited and nervous about this, to be honest. I’m finally trying my hand at cross stitch samplers. What is a sampler, you might ask? It’s turned into a ...

The Museum of Childhood recently published a picture of this hundreds of year old unfinished embroidery sampler that’s very unusual. Embroidery at the time was seen as a good pastime for a young lady, ...

Press enter or click to view image in full size Rosalie Malbrancke’s 19th-century embroidery sampler. (Photo by author.) As a historian who embroiders (a textile artist with a history PhD?), I ...

On nearly every wall in JoAnn Myers' home hangs at least one sampler featuring the alphabet, animals, flowers and decorative borders. Myers created most of the samplers, often using a magnifying glass ...