One of the best places to find vintage items to add to your home decor that really have that cozy cottage vibe is the thrift store. Vintage embroidery samplers are one of the most unique and rewarding ...

Click to open image viewer. This sampler was owned by the family of an elderly needle worker, Cloris Davis (born ca 1933), who learned her skills from her mother. The sampler is several generations ...

The earliest known American sampler was made by Loara Standish of the Plymouth Colony about 1645. By the 1700s, samplers depicting alphabets and numerals were worked by young women to learn the basic ...