The Museum of Childhood recently published a picture of this hundreds of year old unfinished embroidery sampler that’s very unusual. Embroidery at the time was seen as a good pastime for a young lady, ...

Click to open image viewer. This sampler was owned by the family of an elderly needle worker, Doia Macauley (b. 1912), who learned her skills from her mother. The sampler is several generations older ...