I should be working on my Woodlawn report since I have the computer controls right now, but when I read the following on how the Plimoth Plantation folks are figuring out reproducing birds on their 17th Century embroidered jacket, it gave me a piece of the puzzle that is samplers.http://thistle-threads.com.mytempweb.com/blog/index.php/2009/03/bird-butts-a-long-tail/
I don't "get" samplers. Folks here love them, though, and over the years in Chilly Hollow I have seen a lot of the reproduction and also the modern samplers. But the reproduction pieces, ones either modeled on old samplers or that exactly reproduce one stitched in the 18th-19th Century, don't appeal to me much. Many of them are pretty big so stitching them is a sustained task. What accounts for the charm? What am I missing?
Reading the above, I think they are time machines. They put us in the shoes of our stitching ancestors and teach us how much we have in common with them, as well as exactly what makes the stitching we do today different from the stitching done in 1814.
By the way, the example above is Mary Cottam's 1814 sampler, charted and sold by Scarlett Letter.
http://www.scarlet-letter.com/rsdescr/19thengl/cottam.htm
Jane/Chilly Hollow
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