To learn and practise various letters and embroidered typo-graphs, women would practise on samplers. Whenever they met another woman with samplers of different typo-graphs, they’d copy them and save them to their own “stitched book”. In case you’re not sure of what a sampler is,
It’s very interesting to know the origin of the sampler technique. As modern embroidery artists, we teach the sampler technique as a way to explore and experiment with your creativity. Furthermore, we know that we’re not alone in this approach. For example the guys at the Textile artist puts an even greater emphasise on the sampler technique through their online training.
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