Tennessee Samplers: Female Education and Domestic Arts, 1800-1900

“This extensive study, nearly twenty years in the making, is a major contribution to the understanding of American textile material culture.” – Candace J. Adelson, Senior Curator of Fashion and Textiles Emeritus, Tennessee State Museum

Containing dozens of beautiful, full-color photographs, Jennifer C. Core and Janet S. Hasson’s study of samplers—embroideries that are “first attempts at a new technique, color combination, or unusual material”—provides vivid descriptions of this nineteenth-ce...