PAST EXHIBIT It is always exciting to add a new artifact to the collections of the Museum. It is even more thrilling when that item dates to 1822 and was made right here in Charleston! The Museum already has the largest collection of Charleston-made schoolgirl needlework samplers in the world,…
Read MorePAST EXHIBIT The Museum recently added to its needlework sampler collection by purchasing a schoolgirl sampler made by Julia Margaret Bachman, the daughter of Rev. John Bachman and Harriet Martin of Charleston. He was the minister at St. John’s Lutheran Church and was also an avid naturalist. He collaborated with…
Read MorePAST EXHIBIT Made by Jane Eliza Taylor at age 9, this schoolgirl sampler is hand-worked on linen with two-ply silk thread. Stitches include cross, square, and eyelet. There is a small alphabet in capital and lower case letters in alternating colors and a larger alphabet in capital letters. There are…
Read MoreThis Have I Done: Samplers and Embroideries from Charleston and the Lowcountry examines the relationship between local sampler designs and the embroidery traditions of various groups who immigrated to South Carolina, among them English, French Huguenot, Dutch and German settlers. While not intended to be a definitive study of Charleston or…
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