Folk art expert J. Michael Flanigan explores the intricately woven history of schoolgirl needlework samplers and the scholarship around them.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

American Samplers 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 ...

Why, 200 years ago, was a five-year-old girl in Scotland painstakingly embroidering her idea of Australia, and what can ...

The needlework, which is thought to have been carried out by Robert Burns’ mother and sister, have been returned to the poet’s birthplace ...

Textile historian Patricia Herr holds two 19th-cnetruy needlework samplers in this photo from March 1998. Detail of a fake needlework sampler that was sold at auction in Ephrata in late 1997.

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 ...