In 1807, a 12-year-old schoolgirl named Mary Antrim stitched a house and garden scene into this silk-on-linen needlework sampler. 200 years later, in January of 2012, the sampler earned over $1 ...

In the 1800s, the cross-stitch was used more heavily; designs were more open and even more pictorial than before. Those stitchery pictures often included cartoonlike figures and charming scenes.

More than 150 years after the last of them received its final stitches, the Virginia samplers lining the walls of the Dewitt Wallace Gallery have earned the right to look a little the worse for wear.

The samplers, appropriately framed, will solidly line the walls, and over the mantel will be some really fine piece of needlework, and Mr. Drake has already found it. The collection now numbers ...

Two teenage girls from a relatively poor family of German origin resided on Croton Road in Kingwood (now Franklin) Township. Their last name was Popelsdorf, and each stitched a needlework sampler ...

Photoshop tutorial showing how to create the look of a custom needlework sampler. Subscribe! A father is being hailed a hero after jumping into the ocean to save his daughter who fell from the fourth ...

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Dear Mr. Smith: I have had this tapestry since I was a young girl. It was passed down to me from a distant aunt from England and was made by an ancestor on my dad’s side of the family. What do ...

Two rare needlework samplers thought to have been embroidered by the mother and sister of Robert Burns have been returned to the poet’s birthplace, with support from a philanthropist in the US ...

Two rare needlework samplers thought to have been embroidered by the mother and sister of Robert Burns have been returned to the poet’s birthplace, with support from a philanthropist in the US.