Sampler Kit

Example of a wedding and anniversary cross-stitch sampler kit. Example of a wedding and anniversary cross-stitch sampler kit.

During the twentieth century, a number of companies in various countries produced kits with all the necessary materials needed to make a sampler of some form. These kits included ground material, thread, needle and a suitable pattern, usually in the form of a chart.

The designs include popular themes, such as the birth of a child (with suitable gender related designs) or a wedding, images and texts designed to commemorate national events, as well as patterns based upon historic examples of samplers. Such kits are still widely available in the twenty-first century.

Source: CLABBURN, Pamela (1977). Samplers, Shire Books: Princes Risborough, p. 26.

Digital source of illustration (retrieved 2 July 2016).

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