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 ...

More than 150 years after the last of them received its final stitches, the Virginia samplers lining the walls of the Dewitt Wallace Gallery have earned the right to look a little the worse for wear.

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 ...

The long threads of American history run through sailcloth and battle flag, through breeches and gowns, through slave apron and immigrant scarf, through soldier’s coat and nurse’s cape, from cotton to ...