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More than 150 years after the last of them received its final stitches, the Virginia samplers lining the walls of the Dewitt Wallace Gallery have earned the right to look a little the worse for wear.

Two rare needlework samplers thought to have been embroidered by the mother and sister of Robert Burns have been returned to the poet’s birthplace, with support from a philanthropist in the US. The ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Joy Jarrett, who runs Witney Antiques with her husband, is one of the leading UK dealers in needlework samplers ...

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PLYMOUTH – A selection of historic girlhood samplers from the collection of the Plymouth Antiquarian Society are being displayed this summer at the Hedge House Museum, located at 126 Water St. The ...

A debate on authentication with particular reference to a hoard of drawings, supposedly by Francis Bacon, that was to have been held at the Courtauld Institute tomorrow has been cancelled for fear of ...