| Description
| Sampler, punched card emb. in silk, Anne Aitken Sliman Feb 18 1851 Kirkmuirhill.
SCRAN text reads:
"This sampler was made by Anne Aitken Sliman of Kirkmuirhill. The date, 18th February 1851, probably refers to when the piece was finished. Anne would have sewn this sampler to show off her needlework skills.
Samplers date back to at least the 16th Century. Originally they were sewn by women, but by the 18th century they were being made by girls like Anne as part of their education. They also took the form most commonly seen today - a mixture of decorative borders, floral designs, animals and sections of verse.
Samplers were originally intended to show of a girl's skill at sewing and ability to use different types of stitches. This could then be used to help the girl get employment - hand embroidering the bed linen of the aristocracy for example. However, by the late 19th Century, samplers were becoming more of a decorative art form in their own right."
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