Friday, February 23, 2007
10:00 AM
“An Introduction to Samplers”
Darlene Lara
11:00 PM
“Antique Samplers and Their Role in Genealogical Research”
Dana Andrews
Genealogical research is being conducted everyday on the Internet and while it is a great source for research it is not the only place. Many people thank that if it’s not on paper or online it can tell little about the historic record, but they are mistaken. Dana Andrews will briefly highlight how objects can be used to determine family histories, then delve into the use of samplers as keys to unlocking those histories.
1:00 AM
“A Beautiful Mourning: Mourning Art and Embroidery”
Janet Hasson
Ms. Hasson will discuss the cult of mourning, which began with George Washington’s death in 1799. The cult of mourning was manifested in costume, the arts, etiquette and décor. Examples of mourning art from many genres will be shown in the slide lecture, with a special emphasis on embroidery and Tennessee examples Janet will provide a historical context fro this national obsession, which lasted from 1799 until after the Civil War.
2:00 PM
“Know Your Needle Arts”
Annelle Ferguson
Annelle has been involved with miniatures since 1978. Like so many, she built a dollhouse for her then three-year-old daughter. While building that first dollhouse, she learned to do needlepoint in order to furnish the house with rugs and carpets beginning her research of the hundred of charming antique design and interest in adapting the originals into 1/12 scale. Her favorite periods are 18th century English and American designs for samplers and chair covers and panels for fire screens and embroider stands. Today, Annelle serves as US Representative for the Miniature Needlework Society, organized in England in 1997 to encourage all forms of miniature work with needle and thread.
3:00 PM
“Textile Tour of Tennessee”
Jennifer Core
Jennifer Core will present the most recent samplers the Tennessee Sampler Survey has documented. Beginning in East Tennessee with the early settlers, she will trace the development of samplers as the move to Middle Tennessee and West Tennessee. Approximately 80 slides of previously unseen samplers will be shown.
4:00 PM
Sampler Walking Tour
Darlene Lara
7:00 PM Keynote Address
“Sampler Making: The Southern Experience”
Kathleen Staples
In contrast to 18th- and early 19th-century New England, where little girls stitched recognizable styles of samplers in a disciplined classroom governed by a teacher who probably distributed the same pattern to everyone in the class, the colonial and antebellum South adopted and adapted a variety of practices for girlhood education. This lecture is an introduction to those practices as they applied to sampler making and to the girls, African-American and American Indian as well as those of European descent, who created these important cultural artifacts
Saturday, February 24, 2007
9:00-12:00 AM
Alison Smith Workshop
Ackworth Style Medallion
Medallion samplers from Ackworth School were similar, yet each one was unique. Schoolgirls used a variety of motifs, which from one sampler to the next were in different placements, and often had variations in actual stitches in the motif. This makes it easy to disguise "mistakes" since you can just call it your own variation of a motif! Get the chart, linen and silks for an Ackworth-style medallion sampler. Done in cross-stitch, with the option of adding initials in cross or eyelet stitch, you will use the provided design to personalize your own Ackworth sampler, just as girls at Ackworth school did (though they most probably used stitched examples, not paper patterns).
In addition to the chart, you will receive the charted motifs as color medallions to cut out and rearrange to create and personalize your own sampler. Additional motifs will be provided that you can add to the base design elements, plus an alphabet to use for personalizing and/or adding initials (family, friends, other loved ones) throughout. Supplemental information about Ackworth School and the Ackworth needlework will also be provided, as well as some hints for how to unlock that personal creativity. And, of course, stitching the chart exactly as provided is always an option.
11:30 AM
“The Scottish Presence in Southern Samplers”
Kathleen StaplesIn the 18th century, in parts of Scotland, girls made crewel-on-linen samplers that are especially distinctive for their color scheme: red and green. In the 19th century girls from North Carolina and central Tennessee also worked samplers of red and green crewel yarn on linen. Join Kathleen Staples as she discusses this idiosyncratic sampler feature and what it says about immigration, settlement pattern, and the transference of aesthetic preference by a culture over time and space.
- Diane Hutsell, Executive Director
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