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A beautiful presentation of needlework from 1700s America, accompanied by an explanation of the type of education girls and young women received during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and how fabric arts were a prominent part of this education. Click on thumbnail images to see detailed embroidered samplers and other embroidered items, including a coat of arms, an easy chair, and a bed rug.
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eighteenth century education for girls, eighteenth century embroidery, eighteenth century female education, embroidered sampler, embroidery sampler, knitting, sampler making, american embroidery, metropolitan museum of art, the met, the metropolitan museum of art: american needleword in the eighteenth century, american art of the colonial period
Classroom Considerations
- Knovation Readability Score: 5 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)