BALTIMORE -- Margaret Ogle was just 13 years old when she stitched a sampler of a brick Georgian-style house flanked by pine trees on a stepped terrace. It was stitched with great precision and detail ...

LE ROY — In October 1834, 10-year-old Jane Boyer of Le Roy finished her cross stitch sampler. Now, 190 years later, her work will be shown at a cross stitch retreat. It’s set for Oct. 19 at St. Mark’s ...

Hundreds of years ago, young shoreline girls threaded life’s sorrows and joys and the understanding of loss at a young age into intricate samplers. Dozens of samplers made by mostly Connecticut girls ...

Twenty-eight years ago, a sampler cross-stitched by a young Lancaster County Amish woman in 1914 had a cameo in the Harrison Ford film "Witness." Last month, the piece was reunited with two others ...

Some admirers might associate samplers (cloths embroidered with designs in different stitches) with American Colonial women. But samplers have played a pivotal role in women’s lives throughout the ...