New Zealand's historic samplers : our stitched stories / Vivien Caughley.
Material type:
TextPublisher: Auckland, New Zealand : Bateman, 2014Copyright date: ©2014Description: 184 p. : colour illustrations ; 27 cmContent type: - text
- still image
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781869538668
- Historic samplers
- 746.4430993 23
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| Book | City Campus City Campus Main Collection | 746.4430993 CAU (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | A529119B |
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A unique glimpse into our cultural history, and particularly women's history, through more than 80 historic samplers - many specially photographed for the book. Through exceptional first-hand research, involving travel around New Zealand and overseas, author Vivien Caughley has created a fascinating story that opens a window on our past, and the history and craft of needlework. It features samplers by colonial women through to those who stitched samplers during World War II. This beautifully produced book will appeal to needlework practitioners, artists and designers, academics, and genealogists. The reverse of the jacket features a design of one of the samplers with instructions.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. What is a sampler? -- 2. Samplers: marked words -- 3. Cross-cultural needlework: glimpses of another world -- 4. Samplers: a gallery of stitched stories -- 5. Commemorative needelwork -- 6. Embroidery, art and design -- 7. Epilogue: encounters with embroidery.
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