Showing posts with label Crafts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Crafts. Show all posts
A needlework sampler is a piece of embroidery produced as a demonstration or test of skill in needlework. Samplers often include the alphabet, figures, motifs, decorative borders and sometimes the name of the person who embroidered them and the date.
The oldest surviving samplers were constructed in the 15th and 16th centuries. As there were no pre-printed patterns available for needleworkers, a stitched model was needed. Whenever a needlewoma…
One of the best resources for finding out about these beauties is also the most obvious: Wikipedia . However the page on the Metropolitan Museum of Arts website is good also, as is the page at Stanford University . Again, wikimedia commons probably has the nicest collection of images, separated into historic categories.
Amongst the many reasons that these artifacts are very appealing to graphic designers is the usage of typography in them. While …
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