The sampler was made by a Victorian orphan called Dora was auctioned in Bath.

Today fiber arts like needlework serve as a reminder of what we can do with our hands, and the value of pieces with a story ...

A rare Victorian needlework sampler could fetch thousands of pounds when it is sold this week, auctioneers say. It was made by an orphan called Dora who lived at one of George Müller's five pioneering ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Two rare needlework samplers thought to have been embroidered by the mother and sister of Robert Burns have been returned to the ...

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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 ...

Another family mystery has landed in my inbox after a reader came across a series of columns I wrote in late 2022/early 2023 about a set of three needlework samplers that had been hanging in my ...

In our increasingly digital world, many of us have been trying to return to the analog way of life through crafts (myself included). Fiber arts like knitting and crochet, quilting, and needlework have ...