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MAPPED AND CHARTED
This is the newest exhibition catalogue from Witney Antiques,
featuring rare and unusual map samplers. Believed to be the
first exhibition ever held, focusing on embroidered map
samplers, the exhibition- and the catalogue- will be a unique
opportunity to see such a diverse collection under one roof.
Thousands of miles have been traveled searching for these
outstanding examples, many of which can be described as
masterpieces of school girl embroidery. The beautiful color
catalogue includes close-up images, and illustrates many
unusual map samplers, as well the more familiar, with each map
accompanied by a detailed description. Softbound. $32.00
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Patterns of Childhood: Samplers
1640-1900 from the Glasgow Museums collections
by Rebecca Quiton
Glasgow Museums hold one of the finest
collections of samplers in the United Kingdom. This book
presents a short introduction to the Glasgow Museums'
collection of samplers and another essay on samplers in
general- why they were made, methods of construction, use of
different stitches and motifs, and other instructive uses.
There is a selection of forty of the finest and most
representative of the 220 samplers held in the collection.
Paperback, $30.00
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The 1846 Hand-Book of Decorative
Needlework
 Ladies
Complete Guide to Needlework and Embroidery containing clear
and practical instructions whereby any can easily learn how to
do all kinds of plain and fancy needlework,
by Miss Lambert
When published, this book was a complete guide to every kind
of needlework popular in the period, including embroidery,
crochet, knitting, tapestry, and braiding. Additionally, this
book offered one of the first histories of needlework ever
published, creating a model for the many needlework
instruction manuals that followed. A particularly pretty book,
with numerous illustrations and a comprehensive introduction
by textile historian Lynne Zacek Bassett, Consulting Curator
for Textiles and Costume at the Connecticut Historical Society
(former Curator of Textiles and Fine Arts at Old Sturbridge
Village, and author of Textiles for Clothing of the Early
Republic and Northern Comfort: New England's Early Quilts.)
Softbound, 504 pages, $39.00
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ACKWORTH QUAKER SCHOOL ENGAGEMENT
DIARIES
 This
limited edition, spiral bound calendar, is useable for the
years 2006, 2007, and 2008, and features color photographs of
twelve samplers, as well as twelve photographs of teachers and
their students from the needlework archive collections at
Ackworth School, in Yorkshire, England. A percentage of the
sale of each diary will be returned to the school for the
conservation of their needlework collection. The diary has a
week per page and useable for any year from 2006 to 2008.
At a later date, is is possible to pull out the personal pages
and have a book of pictures remaining. Each month, there is a
historical account recalling life in the school- school meals,
the work the girls did, how they slept, etc. All of the
accounts, and the introduction, are in English, Dutch, German,
and French. Hardbound, 50 pages.
$35
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Cross
Stitch Antique Style Samplers
 Jane
Greenoff
Over 30
Cross Stitch Designs Inspired by Traditional Samplers
Historically authentic sampler designs inspired by the
author's own collection. In recent years, embroidered samplers
have become highly collectible. Jane Greenoff uses her own
historical sampler collection as the inspiration for over 30
unique antique style cross stitch designs so that you can
begin a collection of your very own. Each project chapter is
inspired by a popular sampler style. Samplers were
traditionally used to teach young girls a variety of skills:
darning samplers improved mending skills while alphabet
samplers helped with literacy and samplers with improving
mottoes instilled morality. Band and spot motif samplers were
used to record the stitches they had learned. Many of the
superb designs are complemented by additional counted thread
stitches to encourage you to extend your stitching repertoire,
including drawn and pulled thread techniques.
Contents: Introduction 1 History of Samplers 2 Back to Basics
3 Projects House samplers Alphabet samplers Map samplers
Darning samplers Red samplers Spot motif samplers Berlin style
samplers Victorian sayings Band samplers 4 Stitch library 5
Motifs for personal designs 6 Mounting and framing 7 Care of
antique samplers Suppliers & Acknowledgments Index
$25.00
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