Historic Samplers: Selected from Museums and Historic Homes : with 30 Cross-stitch Charts for Authentic Reproduction
- ISBN-10
- 0821219316
- ISBN-13
- 9780821219317
- Category
- Art
- Pages
- 160
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1992-01-01
- Publisher
- Bulfinch Press
- Authors
- Patricia Ryan, Allen D. Bragdon
Description
Presents thirty American samplers and their patterns from the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries
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