| Show sampler making pioneer art for american women samplers examples of needle art are part of our count rys history in tile the past young and old women alike made at leat least one and often more during their lifetimes making these was a requirement in schools as well as at home that object over which the girls had tolled toiled and groaned in early days assumed more value later rind and samplers were ware carefully taken along to new homes on marrying or moving to new localities actually sampler making is not indigenous to am america erica for it first appeared in england but while references to samplers were made in literature as early as 1502 the first known was made in 1610 by ann gower who later moved to this country there a are re so far as I 1 know writes rae lewis in the washington post scarcely more than half a dozen samplers of the seventeenth century I 1 left ft in this country in the beginning sampler was literally the name there were no needlework books and every time alm a new stitch was was learned from an old er member of the family or perhaps from a visitor or neighbor it was recorded cordeA re so to speak for future use on the individual sampler early ones included much open and outwork cutwork as well as lace they were long and narrow possibly because of widths the english looms were able to produce on wider con woven materials the narrowness was probably because it was unnecessary to show more of each stitch lengths extended to three feet p sometimes ome times part being rolled up while it was not being worked |
