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Schoolgirl samplers are key to documenting and understanding a girl’s education through her skill with the needle in the 18th, 19th and early 20th Centuries. As artifacts of early education, samplers and other forms of girlhood embroidery are remarkably helpful. The vast majority of surviving artifacts carry the name of the girl who stitched it […]

Schoolgirl samplers are key to documenting and understanding a girl’s education through her skill with the needle in the 18th, 19th and early 20th Centuries. As artifacts of early education, samplers and other forms of girlhood embroidery are remarkably helpful. The vast majority of surviving artifacts carry the name of the girl who stitched it […]