A few centuries ago, kids in classrooms did needlework samplers. They’d stitch their ways through linen stretched tight in wooden hoops as part of this rather slow & demanding hobby. It also taught ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Two rare needlework samplers thought to have been embroidered by the mother and sister of Robert Burns have been returned to the ...

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Valuer and auctioneer Annie Cope-Mew believes the sampler could be sold for thousands of pounds A rare Victorian needlework sampler could fetch thousands of pounds when it is sold this week, ...

A rare Victorian needlework sampler has sold at auction for £3,200. The artefact, which made by an orphan called Dora who lived at one of George Müller's five pioneering New Orphan Homes in Bristol in ...