Click to open image viewer. A botanical alphabet blooms on this colorful cross-stitch sampler bordered in green. As early as the fifteenth century, needlework samplers served as ways to teach and ...

Young ladies of the 18th century were often required to produce samplers of embroidery stitches. This unique piece of needlework taught a young lady to stitch with a fine hand, her alphabet and ...

“This has been in our family since then,” Thomas Hill emailed to the column, writing of a needlework sampler and pointing out the 1818 date on the piece. His daughter-in-law, Neelam, recently brought ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. One script alphabet, two block ...