BIBLIOGRAPHY - SAMPLERS

English Samplers and Embroidery Pictures (illus. catalogue) n.d. Bristol City Art Gallery

Catalogue of Samplers, 1922,  Victoria and Albert Museum

Ashton, Leigh.  Samplers, 1926, The Medici Society

Browne, Clare & Wearden, Jennifer, Samplers from the Victoria and Albert Museum, 1999, V&A Publications

Christie, Mrs A.  Samplers and Stitches ,4th Ed. 1948, Batsford

Clabburn, Pamela.   Samplers (Shire Album 30)

Colby, Averil.  Samplers Yesterday and Today, 1964,  Batsford

Crawford, H.  Needlework Samplers of Northern Ireland, 1989

Dreesmann, Cecile.  Samplers for Today, 1972, Van Nostrand Reinhold Co.

Garrard, Larch S.  Samplers and Related Embroideries in the Isle of Man. Folk Life.

      No 21, 1982-3, p. 36-48

Ewles, Rosemary,   One Man's Samplers:  the Goodhart Collection, 1983,  The Embroiderers

      Guild (exhibition Catalogue)

Huish, M.B.  Samplers and Tapestry Embroideries, 1913,  London

Hunt, P. Carew and  Morrison, J. Cross stitch Patterns and Motifs from 18th and 19th

      Century Samplers, 1979, Wiltshire Folk Life Society

Jones, Mary E.   British Samplers, 1948,  Pen-in-Hand

Judd-Moris, Luisa E.E.  The Sampler Book of Decorative Needlework (1938) Dryad Press

King, Donald.  Samplers, 1960, V&A/ HMSO

Levey, S.   Discovering Embroidery of the 19th Century, 1971, Shire Publications [one chapter]

Lewis, Felicity   Needlepoint Samplers, 1981, Cassel Ltd

Payne, F.G.   Guide to the Samplers and Embroideries, 1938, National Museum of Wales      (out of print)

Payne, F.G.   The use of wool in samplers. In: Centuries of achievement in wool, 1959, International Wool Secretariat.

Stevens, C.  & Rees, M.   Samplers in the Welsh Folk Museum collections,)1987 (repr. 1992)

Tarrant, Naomi.  Samplers, 1978, The Royal Scottish Museum

Toller, Jane.  British Samplers:  A Concise History, 1980, Phillmore & Co.

Bolton, E.S.& Coe, E.J.   American Samplers.  Orig. 1921, Dover Publications, 1973

Fawdry, M..  & Brown, D.  The Book of Samplers, 1980, Guildford & London

Sebba, Anne.   Samplers, Five Centuries of a Gentle Craft, 1979, London

Thomas, Mary.  Dictionary of Embroidery Stitches, 1934, 1981

Walton, K.M.   Samplers, Catalogue of the Collections in Bristol Museum & Art Gallery, 1983, Bristol Museum

Samplers in the Collections of the Manx Museum (catalogue illus.), 1988, Manx Museum, Douglas, Isle of Man