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SAMPLER

This article appears in Volume V24, Page 119 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: SAC-SAR
SAMPLER (from O. Fr. essemplaire, with dropping of initial a,
Late
  Lat. exemplariam, from exemplum, example; it is a doublet of " examplar " or " exempler," as " sample " is of
example "), a model or pattern to be copied, particularly a small rectangular piece of
embroidery
  worked on canvas or other material as a pattern or example of a beginner's skill in needle-
work
 ; as a means of teaching the stitches. Down to comparatively
recent
  times every little girl worked her " sampler," and examples of 17th-century
work
  are still found and have become the object of the collector's
search
 . They usually contained the alphabet, the worker's name, the date, and Bible texts, verses, mottoes, the whole surrounded with some conventional
design
 .
The earliest sampler in existence is dated 1643 and is in the Victoria and Albert Museum,
South
  Kensington (see M. B. Huish, Samplers and Tapestry Embroideries, 1900, and
List
  of Samplers in the Victoria and Albert Museum,
South
  Kensington, Board of Education, South Kensington, 1906).


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