A Maryland Sampling by Gloria Seaman Allen

A Maryland Sampling: Girlhood Embroidery 1738 - 1860 by Gloria Seaman Allen

This volume presents for the first time an extraordinary assemblage of Maryland samplers and pictorial embroideries that will appeal to scholars, collectors and modern day embroiderers. Students of women's history, the decorative arts and Maryland history will discover more about the role of needlework in early female education and in the lives of ordinary women in the changing currents of Chesapeake regional history. Modern day embroiderers will find inspiration in their designs and genealogists will gain valuable insights into Maryland families and their migration patterns. With more than 150 color photographs of samplers and pictorial embroideries - most never before published - this book illustrates regional, religious and racial diversity and showcases the most skillful, unusual, interesting and less well known aspects of Maryland girlhood embroidery.

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