"A Maryland Sampling: Girlhood Embroidery 1738-1860 presents for the first time an extraordinary assemblage of Maryland samplers and pictorial embroideries that will appeal to scholars, collectors, and modern day embroiderers. Students of women's history, the decorative arts, and Maryland history will discover more about the role of needlework in early female education and in the lives of ordinary women in the changing currents of Chesapeake regional history.
