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New York Historical Society video lecture available on Youtube - entitled “Truth” Revealed – Rosena Disery’s African Free School Sampler"
Presented by Margi Hofer, Museum Director and Vice President of the NYHS, it's a deep dive into Rosena Disery, a student at New York City’s African Free School, and her highly significant 1820 sampler. Hofer includes a great amount of information about the school and also its students along with fascinating information about the lives of Rosena, her husband and family - highly successful caterers in NYC. The New York Historical Society also holds the African Free School’s records and papers.
This sampler, and much information, is in the archives of our website. Put "rosena" in the search box upper right on any page of our site (of course you can use this for any other search). We are proud to have owned, researched, conserved and framed the sampler before NYHS acquired it, ten years ago.
Stitching Property: Architecture and Land on Schoolgirl Needlework
Announcing a virtual lecture by Winterthur Research Fellow and Boston University PH.D candidate Mariah Gruner on Thursday May 13, 5:00 ET entitled “Stitching Property, Picturing Feminine Authority: Depictions of Architecture and Land in Nineteenth Century Schoolgirl Needlework.” In her presentation Mariah will explore possible meanings of depicting houses and terrain on schoolgirl samplers when, under the laws of coverture, most women could not own property. She interprets 19th century architectural samplers as sites for developing feminine visions of control (and even ownership) over the space of the house, not simply the home. She will also discuss ways to think about these property-oriented practices in spaces of settlement and enslavement and what meanings can be unfurled from free Black women's use of the form. In this latter context she will be discussing samplers by Ann Plato and Sarah Ann Major Harris, as well as a needlework picture marked only with "E.J." and "Natchez, Mississippi."
New Light: Notes on a Vermont Schoolgirl Embroidery
Article in The Magazine Antiques (July 3, 2020) by Dr. Gene R. Garthwaite
The Hannah Samplers
"Fiber Talk Live" with Gary Parr, July 8, 2020
interview with Barbara Hutson of Queenstown Sampler Designs
A Sampler from the Bennington Museum Blog Post
visit Bennington's website for more information
on this sampler from 1835.
Sewing and Embroidery Lessons at the College of San Ignacio de Loyola, Vizcaínas
Check out a recorded Zoom presentation (in Spanish, password is: 0p%eR140)
about school girl embroidery in Mexico City from the College of San Ignacio De Loyola, Vizcaínas, founded in 1767
Girlhood (It's Complicated)
National Museum of American History (NMAH) in Washington, DC.
The exhibition is one in many ways in which the various Smithsonian museums have chosen to honor the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th amendment giving women the right to vote.
The exhibition will be at the NMAH for two years, after which it will be a traveling exhibition and be on display at five to seven other museums in the country 2023-2025. https://americanhistory.si.edu/exhibitions/girlhood-its-complicated?utm_...
A Guide to Early American Samplers
Head over to Simmons College Library page for A Guide to Early American Samplers.
"A Stitch in Time" - Blog Post
by Stacey Fraser
Lexington Historical Society, Massachusetts
visit lexingtonhistory.org
"Threads of History: Swetland family samplers" - Blog Post
by Aimee Newell
by Aimee Newell