Samplers and Tapestry Embroideries

Samplers and Tapestry Embroideries - Second Edition

I have explained, in the chapter upon English Needlework with which this volume opens, the reasons which prompted me to take up the subject of Samplers and Tapestry Embroideries, and I have here only to thank the many who, since its first issue, have expressed their acknowledgment of the pleasure they have derived from it, and to record my gratification that it has induced some of them to start the study and collection of these interesting objects. In the present edition several American Samplers of considerable interest, kindly furnished by correspondents in that country, are noted and illustrated. I am indebted to the publishers for putting the present volume on the market at a more popular price than the expense of the first edition permitted. [Pg vii] [Pg ix] [Pg 1] Fig. 1.The Visit to the Boarding School. By George Morland.Wallace Collection. Fig. 2.Bottom of Sampler, in Knitted Yellow Silk, by Mary Caney, 1710.Mrs C. J. Longman. English Needlework Amongst all the Minor Arts practised by our ancestresses, there was certainly no one which was so much the fashion, or in which a higher grade of proficiency was attained, as that of needlework. It was in vogue in the castle and the cottage, in the ladies seminary and the dames school, and a girls education began and ended with endeavours to attain perfection in it. Amongst the earliest objects to be shown to a mother visiting her daughter at school was, as is seen in the charming picture by Morland in the Wallace Collection (Fig. 1), the sampler which the young pupil had worked.[1] These early tasks were, very[Pg 2] certainly in the majority of instances, little cared for by the schoolgirls who produced them, but being cherished by fond parents they came in after years to be looked upon with an affectionate eye by those who had made them, and to be preserved and even handed down as heirlooms in the family. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 41717
Author: Huish, Marcus B. (Marcus Bourne)
Release Date: Dec 27, 2012
Format: eBook
Language: English