my18thcenturysource:Embroidery sampler, 1770-99, Mexico, Victoria & Albert Museum.A sampler (or
my18thcenturysource:Embroidery sampler, 1770-99, Mexico, Victoria & Albert Museum.A sampler (or exampler) was made by girls to show off their embroidery skills that prepared them for the adult life. A sampler did not only kept their stitched as a reminder of how to make them, but could also show motifs to be used as adornments in their future households, or simply record their attainments.In Mexico (where this one is from) samplers are called “dechados” (from the Latin “dictatum”), and there are very surviving ones from before the 18th century, but the samplers from the 19th century show us the fashionable stitches, designs and techniques. There are a few in the Victoria and Albert collection, and some more at the Franz Mayer Museum in Mexico City. -- source link
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