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Article: Architectural samplers from Frederick County, Maryland.
- Article from:
- The Magazine Antiques
- Article date:
- April 1, 2007
- Author:
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American embroiderers have stitched architectural motifs on their samplers from the mid-eighteenth century on. This fascination with embroidered representations of buildings can be linked to a growing acquisition of consumer goods and the pursuit of gentility and refinement, one manifestation of which was the replacement of impermanent dwellings with more substantial multistoried houses of clapboard, brick, and stone in the fashionable and rigidly symmetrical Georgian style. (1)
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Maryland girls worked samplers with representations of buildings ranging from a simple house with a door flanked by two windows to multistoried mansions ...
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