On nearly every wall in JoAnn Myers' home hangs at least one sampler featuring the alphabet, animals, flowers and decorative borders. Myers created most of the samplers, often using a magnifying glass ...

The intricate work of the earliest-known American sampler, plain in color but tricky for its reversible feature, was reproduced by needlework artist Jeannie Pogmore of Lebanon. Along with 11 other ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Hand Embroidering Hand embroidery looks difficult, but it’s actually one of the easiest fiber crafts to learn—not to mention one ...

Young ladies of the 18th century were often required to produce samplers of embroidery stitches. This unique piece of needlework taught a young lady to stitch with a fine hand, her alphabet and ...

Alot of people associate embroidery with tea cozies and other loving-hands-at-home projects by elderly great-aunts. And that attitude needles needlepoint buffs in a big way. ”It`s a curse that people ...

Long before there was ancestry.com, there were samplers. “Genealogical samplers recording births, marriages and deaths became popular around 1790,” explains a placard accompanying the new exhibition ...