WANTED:
Bring your antique samplers for identification and documentation
Saturday, November 19, 2022, 10:00 am – 4:00 pm
Bennington Museum, Bennington, Vermont
The national Sampler Archive Project wishes to locate, document and photograph antique American samplers and related schoolgirl embroideries in Vermont’s public and private collections.
The public is invited to bring their antique American samplers and other schoolgirl embroideries to this Sampler ID Day where they will be registered, documented and photographed. You will meet with sampler specialists, and learn more about your needlework heirlooms.
If you have history for your sampler and/or the girl who made it, please bring it along.
Sponsors for this event:
The Bennington Museum
Sampler Consortium (www.Samplerarchive.org)
Vermont Sampler Identification Team:
Michele Pagán, at mpp1@comcast.net
Ellen Thompson, ellen2thom@gmail.com
Appointment required for 3 or more samplers.