There are rare records of women’s voices in the 17th and 18th centuries, especially ordinary middle and lower class women. An exhibition at the University of Cambridge’s Fitzwilliam Museum is ...

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 ...

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Sewing a neat sampler was a necessary talent if you were a young woman growing up in 18th- or 19th-century America. The Concord Museum showcases 30 such samplers in its new exhibition, “Interwoven: ...

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