Creating Historic Samplers

Creating Historic Samplers By Judith K. Grow & Elizabeth C. McGrail

Here is the first book to explain the "whys" and "hows" of America's oldest embroidery...the only book designed to help modern needleworkers make their own heirloom samplers based on authentic models. Now, step-by-step, you can learn how to design and chart your own sampler, how to choose the right fabrics and threads and how to work all of the basic stitches. Seventeen pages of charted motifs - alphabets, flowers, trees, birds, human figures, buildings...all the elements that have been used in antique American needlework - provide you with a complete catalog of creative ideas. There are also four complete samplers - an alphabet sampler, a Pennsylvania-German sampler, a schoolhouse and a family tree.

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