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Scottish Samplers – Learn how to tell the difference between Scottish and English
Scottish samplers – how to recognise them Today we take a look at how to recognise Scottish Samplers. This is the first in a series of antique needlework sampler blogs where you will discover, if you don’t already know, why people get excited… The general rule is never to attribute anything on the basis of one indicator alone.…
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Antique samplers – verses
MADELENA Shop, Sell, Discover World’s largest online gallery of antique SAMPLERS The Sampler Guild (UK) Antique samplers – a selection of interesting verse samplers Before we get started here’s a question. May one overlook fading when evaluating antique samplers? If a sampler is appealing enough in other respects we think you may, but as always it is a matter for…
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Antique Samplers, Houses and Churches
Madelena Shop, Sell, Discover World’s largest online gallery of antique SAMPLERS The Sampler Guild (UK) Some of us are fascinated by those English needlework samplers that depict buildings, so much so that some collections consist of nothing else. One collection known to us consists only of Solomon’s Temple samplers. Solomon’s Temple was a teacher’s favourite as it would likely…