The earliest known American sampler was made by Loara Standish of the Plymouth Colony about 1645. By the 1700s, samplers depicting alphabets and numerals were worked by young women to learn the basic ...

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 ...

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 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.

NEWFANE — The Newfane Village Union Hall will host two events on the intricacies of needlework samplers. Needlework samplers are pieces of fabric that were used to showcase embroidery stitches, ...

Excerpts and summaries of news stories from the former Intelligencer Journal, Lancaster New Era and Sunday News that focus on the events in the county’s past that are noteworthy, newsworthy ...

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. The ...