[Nfb-krafters-korner] Want to know Wednesday - Craft history

[Dixie]

                I used to do a lot of counted cross stitch in my sighted
days.  My particular favorites included antique sampler reproductions.

 

The samplers were ways for young girls to learn their alphabets along with
practicing the skills needed to sew their wedding linens.  Occasionally one
will find a sampler that was done by a boy.  When the boy had been confined
for reasons like illness he would be given tasks that could be done from the
confines of his bed.  One of these tasks would be learning his alphabet by
making a sampler.

 

Samplers also illustrated family lineage or could be done in memorial of a
deceased family member.

 

Samplers could have all kinds of motifs, pictures, scripts, and embroidery
techniques.

 

One could often tell what school a girl went to by the motifs found in her
samplers.

 

One of the most interesting girl's names I found in an antique sampler was
"Freelove Hazzard."  Makes one think, doesn't it?

 

 

 

Dixie

 

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