Samplers and Tapestry Embroideries

PART I

Samplers

pattern Sampler is described at p. 16._]

SCHOOL, CALCUTTA, 1797. _Author's Collection._]

PART I

Samplers

The sampler as a pattern, or example, from which to learn varieties of needlework, whether of design or stitches, must have existed almost as long as the Art of Embroidery, which we know dates back into as distant a past as ...