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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