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 ...

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 ...

In 2012, when your young daughter brings home her school artwork, it will most probably find pride of place on the refrigerator behind a magnet commemorating your trip to Disney World. Eventually it ...

A few centuries ago, kids in classrooms did needlework samplers. They’d stitch their ways through linen stretched tight in wooden hoops as part of this rather slow & demanding hobby. It also taught ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The sampler dates back to the 19th Century [Auctioneum] A rare Victorian needlework sampler has sold at auction for £3,200. The ...

A rare Victorian needlework sampler has sold at auction for £3,200. The artefact, which made by an orphan called Dora who lived at one of George Müller's five pioneering New Orphan Homes in Bristol in ...