Uploaded February 2025 | Updated September 2026, 7 minutes ago
Filmed at the Attic's Sampler Symposium, January 2025 - a conversation with Becky
Referenced:
The 2024 Witney Antiques exhibition catalog, Choice and Precious Work: Treasures from the Schoolroom 1650-1770: The Needle & Beyond - available from the Attic, Thistle Threads, and other needlework retailers
Specifically, the amazing band sampler on page 200 of that book, referred to as the 'all of them' sampler or the 'all or nothing' sampler by us.
Nicola Parkman's interview with Becky at Witney Antiques: youtube.com/watch?v=DQGv1a4r-9g
Tricia Nguyen of Thistle Threads' video of the 2024 exhibition, in Travels with Tricia: youtube.com/watch?v=sOoFkr5tSxk
Thistle Threads Cabinet of Curiosities courses, part I (history and making of caskets) and part II (stumpwork) are still available as read only classes: thistle-threads.myshopify.com/collections/online-university
Susanna Clarke (she of the unusually even handwoven linen) is on page 202
The referenced group of samplers including the Jennings sister samplers is often referred to as the Integrated Text band samplers and a quick summary can be found here: cooperhewitt.org/2019/09/26/mary-milners-integrated-text-band-sampler
Alice and Margaret Jennings' samplers are at Montacute House and were published in The Goodhart Samplers (out of print, still available for high prices on the secondary market)
Another, Hannah Culleup, is in the collection of MFA Boston and is a personal favorite: collections.mfa.org/objects/116929/sampler?ctx=b15d676c-f19d-493b-ade1-ff36a98dbb01&idx=197
The Elizabeth Hall suite - which is truly spectacular - was published in the 2023 Witney Antiques exhibition catalogue, Choice and Precious Work: Treasures from the Schoolroom 1650-1750: Elizabeth Hall and Friends
Copies are still available from Thistle Threads: thistle-threads.myshopify.com/products/choice-and-precious-work-treasures-from-the-schoolroom
Joanna Warren 1655, of the Fitzwilliam Museum: data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110566
The back isn't shown on the Fitzwilliam website, but she has frequent, visible carries on the back within a motif where it could have been easily hidden, although she starts and stops between motifs: notable because this is a sampler stitched to a fairly high degree of reversibility, but with this one oddity of carries.
The modern embroiderer referenced is Kat Diuguid: katherinediuguid.squarespace.com
You can find her casket, titled 'We Are Stronger Than We Know' here (at the time of writing it is the first image on this page): katherinediuguid.squarespace.com/portfoliooverview
Contented Needleworker Kim on flosstube (I know, you all know her already!): youtube.com/@ContentedNeedleworkerKim
Objects shown:
Sampler, Cooper Hewitt: collection.cooperhewitt.org/objects/18564345
Sampler, Cooper Hewitt: collection.cooperhewitt.org/objects/18616431
I Write the Needles Praise, 2022 Witney Antiques exhibition book
Band sampler, Mary Pots, Metropolitan Museum of Art metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/219509
Band sampler, Mary Milner, Cooper Hewitt collection.cooperhewitt.org/objects/18617141
Band sampler, Anna Buckett, Metropolitan Museum of Art: metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/229028
Choice and Precious Work: Elizabeth Hall & Friends, 2023 Witney exhibition book
Sleeve, Metropolitan Museum of Art: metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/223031
Burse, Metropolitan Museum of Art: metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/229059
Women's jacket, Metropolitan Museum of Art: metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/81132
Mirror with Jael and Barak: metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/198323
Cabinet with Scenes from the Story of Esther: metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/229034
Filmed at the Attic's Sampler Symposium, January 2025 - a conversation with Becky
Referenced:
The 2024 Witney Antiques exhibition catalog, Choice and Precious Work: Treasures from the Schoolroom 1650-1770: The Needle & Beyond - available from the Attic, Thistle Threads, and other needlework retailers
Specifically, the amazing band sampler on page 200 of that book, referred to as the 'all of them' sampler or the 'all or nothing' sampler by us.
Nicola Parkman's interview with Becky at Witney Antiques: youtube.com/watch?v=DQGv1a4r-9g
Tricia Nguyen of Thistle Threads' video of the 2024 exhibition, in Travels with Tricia: youtube.com/watch?v=sOoFkr5tSxk
Thistle Threads Cabinet of Curiosities courses, part I (history and making of caskets) and part II (stumpwork) are still available as read only classes: thistle-threads.myshopify.com/collections/online-university
Susanna Clarke (she of the unusually even handwoven linen) is on page 202
The referenced group of samplers including the Jennings sister samplers is often referred to as the Integrated Text band samplers and a quick summary can be found here: cooperhewitt.org/2019/09/26/mary-milners-integrated-text-band-sampler
Alice and Margaret Jennings' samplers are at Montacute House and were published in The Goodhart Samplers (out of print, still available for high prices on the secondary market)
Another, Hannah Culleup, is in the collection of MFA Boston and is a personal favorite: collections.mfa.org/objects/116929/sampler?ctx=b15d676c-f19d-493b-ade1-ff36a98dbb01&idx=197
The Elizabeth Hall suite - which is truly spectacular - was published in the 2023 Witney Antiques exhibition catalogue, Choice and Precious Work: Treasures from the Schoolroom 1650-1750: Elizabeth Hall and Friends
Copies are still available from Thistle Threads: thistle-threads.myshopify.com/products/choice-and-precious-work-treasures-from-the-schoolroom
Joanna Warren 1655, of the Fitzwilliam Museum: data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110566
The back isn't shown on the Fitzwilliam website, but she has frequent, visible carries on the back within a motif where it could have been easily hidden, although she starts and stops between motifs: notable because this is a sampler stitched to a fairly high degree of reversibility, but with this one oddity of carries.
The modern embroiderer referenced is Kat Diuguid: katherinediuguid.squarespace.com
You can find her casket, titled 'We Are Stronger Than We Know' here (at the time of writing it is the first image on this page): katherinediuguid.squarespace.com/portfoliooverview
Contented Needleworker Kim on flosstube (I know, you all know her already!): youtube.com/@ContentedNeedleworkerKim
Objects shown:
Sampler, Cooper Hewitt: collection.cooperhewitt.org/objects/18564345
Sampler, Cooper Hewitt: collection.cooperhewitt.org/objects/18616431
I Write the Needles Praise, 2022 Witney Antiques exhibition book
Band sampler, Mary Pots, Metropolitan Museum of Art metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/219509
Band sampler, Mary Milner, Cooper Hewitt collection.cooperhewitt.org/objects/18617141
Band sampler, Anna Buckett, Metropolitan Museum of Art: metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/229028
Choice and Precious Work: Elizabeth Hall & Friends, 2023 Witney exhibition book
Sleeve, Metropolitan Museum of Art: metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/223031
Burse, Metropolitan Museum of Art: metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/229059
Women's jacket, Metropolitan Museum of Art: metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/81132
Mirror with Jael and Barak: metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/198323
Cabinet with Scenes from the Story of Esther: metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/229034
