Sew What?
Sew What?
Isabella Rosner
Embroidering Adversity in Charity and Orphan School Needlework
24 minutes Posted Mar 11, 2021 at 12:00 pm.
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In this episode, Isabella discusses samplers and other needleworked items stitched at eighteenth- and nineteenth-century English charity and orphan schools. Special attention is given to the St Clements Danes school samplers and Bristol orphanage samplers. 

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