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Melanie M: Mary Clayton by Hands Across the Sea Samplers

A Lesson on Mexican Samplers in April

We had an excellent program for the APRIL Tudor Rose Sampler Guild meeting. Lynne Anderson, Director of the Sampler Archive Project, gave a lecture instructing about Mexican samplers. The lecture was titled, ‘”Dechados”, Mexican Samplers across Time and Space.’ We saw a fabulous array of beautiful Mexican samplers and learned what makes them unique and […]

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Dog Days of Summer

Exciting things are happening in the world of needlework! It seems over the last ten years or so, we have lost important publications such as Sampler & Antique Needlework Quarterly and Fine Lines, just to name a few. For stitchers interested in antique needlework and reproduction samplers, it’s getting harder and harder to find publications

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