Sew What?
Sew What?
Isabella Rosner
Unstitching Colonialism: South Indian Missionary School Samplers
32 minutes Posted Jul 16, 2020 at 11:00 am.
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In this episode, Isabella examines a group of mid-19th-century samplers made by South Indian girls in a missionary school run by a British woman. She discusses the intersection of these samplers and colonialism, focusing on evidence of colonialism in the samplers' threads, inscriptions, and compositions.