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This quilt is made with blocks from the Quilt Block Exchange. I quilted this as a piece to bring to quilt shops for longarm quiltling referrals.
blogged: www.quiltsoflove.blogspot.com
This is a sampler worked by Martha A Barnes, aged 12 about 1870. This very bright sampler with wool on a linen background. The bright colours indicate that it made after the discovery of sythetic dyes, which allowed cheap production of strong colours such as purple and blue. We do not know where Ranton School is, although there is a village called Ranton School in Staffordshire. If you know anything about A Ranton School which would have been open to girls around 1870 the Herbert would be interested to hear from you.
You can see another one of Martha's samplers here.
SH.1960.87.2
Samplers were first made in the 1400s or 1500s as a way of remembering different types of stitches or patterns. Over time they evolved into pieces of work made by young girls, proving their knowledge and patience.
The Herbert has over 60 samplers in its collection. With volunteers from NADFAS we have recently completed a project to improve their storage and to make them more accessible. You can see some of the samplers on display at the Herbert in the History Gallery, Connected and in What's in Store.
Dessert Sampler
For dessert, the pastry chef offered a "tasting" of various house desserts.
Torta di Limone e Ricotta (left)
Chocolate-Pistachio-Sour Cherry Biscotti: (far back) These were okay, but a similar version www.flickr.com/photos/ulteriorepicure/319015622/ (right)
Espresso Wafers: (foreground) Thoroughly boring. My friends and I ended up using them as a vehicle for the melted gelato. Ooops, was that out loud? *Oink*
I think this was susposed to be done in red, but I did it in a pinkish color instead. I'll always remember this sampler for two reasons. The first is because most of it was stitched at my mom's bedside at ICU when she had a sudden heart attack in her early fiftes. The second reason, is, when I finally finished this piece - my yongest son (who was two at the time) grabbed a blue magic marker and drew on it! I got most of it out, but there are still some faint lines at the bottom that will never come out. This picece is haunted by bad memoires.
Learn about 15 stitches with this monogram sampler. The bright colors photograph really well, but we have done this sampler in about 50 different color ways. Let's Learn to needlepoint!
So, another baby another sampler, but I loved the design and colors. Pattern, The Moon Sampler, by Moira Blackburn
Above are my first 15 enamel samplers. I've tried to photograph the colours as accurately as possible and have added some notes. Not every colour is probably at it's best, they might be changed by different temps or times but I've followed the temperature notes in the catalogues as much as possible. My personal favourite from this group is Soyer Jewellery Enamels 606 Moss Green, which although labelled as Opaque is surprisingly transparent.
Quite possibly the worst photo of a cross stitch sampler in the world!
I was a member of the Methodist Society (Methsoc) at university - in my final year (1998), the Chaplain left in order to take up his ministry in Manchester. One of the society's leaving presents to him was this sampler which I designed and stitched and then everyone signed a message on the reverse.
The little pictures are difficult to see on this photo, but they are :
- very top right-hand corner a picture of the chaplain's beloved golden retriever
then starting middle top and working clockwise :
"50" - the chaplain celebrated this milestone with us during his time at the university. Now I look back at this and wonder whether he'll want the constant reminder!!!
Fairy - one notable Christmas fancy dress party, he turned up in full fairy regalia. Nice!
Coracle - One Christian Aid week, David built his own coracle, seemingly from blue tarpaulin, lots of Christian aid pamphlets and some pea sticks. He sailed it on the university lake and amazingly it didn't sink...immediately.
Loaf of bread - together with the chalice of wine diagonally opposite, the elements of Christian communion
Voting card - a memory of the 1997 general election
Candles - always an important part of our worship
Tree and bee - representing Attenborough Nature Reserve close to the university
Music stand and notes - again music always an important part of worship and basically nearly everything we did!
Chalice of wine - see my comments on the bread above
Footsteps - a reminder of our journey with Christ
Green pamphlet - David produced a series of weekly prayer leaflets for us to use
Man in rags - there is a legendary story of one service David was to lead in a church local to the university (before my time there) when he and another lady from our group turned up dressed as two homeless people in order to emphasise their message
Finally, in the bottom left of the sampler, it reads
"The King will reply; I tell you, whenever you did this for one of the least important of these brothers of mine, you did it for me." Matthew 25:40
This is a sampler worked in 1872. Many samplers include alphabets and numbers, but this girl (SAR or HB perhaps!) has chosen to work the Roman numerals for 1 to 10 and 100, 500 and 1000 instead of our standard (Arabic) numerals.
SH.1966.64
Samplers were first made in the 1400s or 1500s as a way of remembering different types of stitches or patterns. Over time they evolved into pieces of work made by young girls, proving their knowledge and patience.
The Herbert has over 60 samplers in its collection. With volunteers from NADFAS we have recently completed a project to improve their storage and to make them more accessible. You can see some of the samplers on display at the Herbert in the History Gallery, Connected and in What's in Store.
This is a sampler worked by Ann Marie Dunkley aged 6 years. She finished the sampler on 12th April 1844. In the Herbert's collections 6 is the youngest age recorded on one of our samplers.
The text reads
Jesus permit they gracious name to stand,
as the first efforts of an infants hand,
and whilst her fingers o'er the canvas move,
engage her tender heart to seek they love,
with thy dear children let her have a part
and write they name thyself upon her heart
The same verse also appears on Ann Phillips' and Catherine Palmer's samplers.
SH.1988.135
Samplers were first made in the 1400s or 1500s as a way of remembering different types of stitches or patterns. Over time they evolved into pieces of work made by young girls, proving their knowledge and patience.
The Herbert has over 60 samplers in its collection. With volunteers from NADFAS we have recently completed a project to improve their storage and to make them more accessible. You can see some of the samplers on display at the Herbert in the History Gallery, Connected and in What's in Store.
This is a sampler worked by Emma Blenkarne aged 9, and finished on 3rd March 1825.
This is one of the few samplers in the Herbert's collection that is not solely worked in cross-stitch. The work of the ground under the animals may be disguising a mistake.
The text reads
Tell me ye knowing and discerning few
Where I can find a friend both firm and true
Who will stand by me when in deep distress
And then their love and friendship most express
My young attempts I here expose
As nature does a budding rose
This verse about friendship appears regularly on samplers, although this is the only one in the Herbert's collection to have it on.
SH.1962.1
Samplers were first made in the 1400s or 1500s as a way of remembering different types of stitches or patterns. Over time they evolved into pieces of work made by young girls, proving their knowledge and patience.
The Herbert has over 60 samplers in its collection. With volunteers from NADFAS we have recently completed a project to improve their storage and to make them more accessible. You can see some of the samplers on display at the Herbert in the History Gallery, Connected and in What's in Store.
This is a sampler worked by Elizabeth Chamberlain in February 1802. While this sampler is not the oldest in the Herbert's collection, it is one of the most delicate. It has been worked in silk and the thread is very powdery. As some point before it came to the Herbert it has been attached by pests, hence all the holes in it.
SH.1975.133.2
Samplers were first made in the 1400s or 1500s as a way of remembering different types of stitches or patterns. Over time they evolved into pieces of work made by young girls, proving their knowledge and patience.
The Herbert has over 60 samplers in its collection. With volunteers from NADFAS we have recently completed a project to improve their storage and to make them more accessible. You can see some of the samplers on display at the Herbert in the History Gallery, Connected and in What's in Store.
I'm sending a Handmade Christmas Sampler to my exchange partner this year. This is a set of ornaments and charms that I made for the holiday season. I have a feather angel ornament, my charm keeper necklace, a solder bottle with a Christmas message, a soldered Christmas bulb, a reindeer brooch and a mica snowflake ornament.
The Sampler Lady
by Little House Needleworks
ended: 05/18/2008
see the WIP (http://www.dolcifusa.it/pp109_Sampler_Lady.htm)
This quilt is made with blocks from the Quilt Block Exchange. I quilted this as a piece to bring to quilt shops for longarm quiltling referrals.
blogged: www.quiltsoflove.blogspot.com
I recently did an essay about blackwork embroidery and this was one of my accompanying samples. It was supposed of kind of show how the oxidation of the black dye rots away the threads. Something like that anyway.
the back
This quilt is made with blocks from the Quilt Block Exchange. I quilted this as a piece to bring to quilt shops for longarm quiltling referrals.
blogged: www.quiltsoflove.blogspot.com
The notebooks and sewing samplers (3) in the Mary Lancaster collection are significant because they tell the story of the types of sewing skills taught at South Australian schools over a period of about four decades from the 1920s until the 1950s. Sewing samplers taught children the skills of dressmaking: different seams, hems, cuffs, wristbands, pockets, plackets, pin tucks and some embroidery stitches to finish same.
Mary Lancaster, born in 1903 in Kalangadoo, was a pupil at Kalangadoo Primary School then at Cabra College for her secondary schooling. Mary is presumed to have been a junior teacher before attending Adelaide Teachers College . After teachers college, Mary Lancaster taught at a series of one teacher schools, including Schell's Well which she opened, Keyneton, Kalangadoo, Kalkabury in the thirties, Tailem Bend in the forties and Glenelg in the fifties. She also taughjt at Black Forest Demonstration School. When Mary retired, she continued working with local schools especially St Anne's School (a school for children with disabilities), helping them to read. She died at Kalyra in 1994.
South Australia, 20th century (first half)
2009.015