I would love for you to make a coffee table book of all the samplers you have and the behind the scenes of the reproduction process. That would be a beautiful book.❤
Thank you so much for the talk today of samplers! You have always brought me, and probably other stitchers, too, an amazing amount of useful information about needlework. I follow your channel eagerly, knowing that I'll be learning something every time. Have a wonderful week, Nicola 🙂
It's so fun to see you talking to and interacting with your boys. If I were to say "out" or "walk" in front of my dogs, I had better be ready to do it just then or they would pester me so till I got up and did it. 😅. Your explanation of antique samplers was incredibly interesting, thank you for sharing!
Thank you for continuing the discussion from the previous Floss Tube to expound on adaptations and interpretations and for showing us your adaptation for your husband. I do agree that for posterity having some visible personalization to indicate what year our stitching was done to distinguish from the year the original sampler was stitched is important. Also, I may decide to take inspiration from you and personalize and adapt my ancestor’s sampler from 1790. There is a section missing where it appears the lower case letters had been. I have been debating whether to chart and stitch them based on the shadows visible of the first few letters and making a judgment call regarding the numbers or filler motifs if needed or whether to leave it open as it currently is. After your discussion, I may chart some personal info to show I am stitching this in Kezia’s memory. Hoping you have safe travels to the States. Thank you for all that you do for the needlearts!
Very interesting perspective and information about the concept of reproduction samplers - and examples! I can't wait to see you again in just a couple of weeks, at the QCSG workshop.
I appreciated your video about personalizing samplers so its know who stitched it. I've noticed that some people frown on that but it makes so much sense to put your name and date stitched. I love your educational videos very much. Have a wonderful time at the retreat.
Nicola, you answered my questions on adaptations. I have seen some stitchers take a motif or borders from many different reproduction samplers to create their own personal sampler. As you stated, these adaptations or inspirations are for personal use and enjoyment and would not be charted or sold as an original designed sampler. I plan on adding my name on reproductions as you suggested so that others can see when the chart was completed and avoid confusion.
Thank you for all your explanations of the reproductions and adapted needlework. I was especially happy to see the Cicely sampler. Leona was working on this in the lobby of the hotel during The Great British Sampler Weekend 2023, and I fell in love with it. I realized that it was only available as a PDF on your site so I searched for the printed booklet. Now I know why I couldn't find it! I will be upgrading my printer so I can download it for an accurate printout. Yes, Conrad (my husband), we need a new printer for my cross-stitch !!! Again, thank you for all that you do for our needlework community.
This was very interesting. I miss last weeks video about your question on reproduction antique samplers. I agree they are reprocuctions and no other words can describe it. I am also a doll maker of inspired and reproduction english , queen anne dolls. We sign our work and i agree we as sampler makers need to leave our mark on the samplers we reproduce in the work of our sampler's. I myself if someone comes into the possession of my work a hundred years from now, i want them to know it is my work. Thank you for all that you do. You are amazing ❤
Thank you so much, Nicola for this very informative and educational video. Your passion and knowledge (and sharing of that knowledge) are incredible. Thank you so much. Happy stitching!
Thank you for your willingness to share the insights you gathered regarding sampler definitions. I learned several things today & I agree with all you said. I am newly motivated to personalize my stitching with my name & date now. Thank you Nicola.
Thank you for your explanations and talk on reproductions and adapted needlework. I hadn’t thought very deeply about it all before, but this has changed my opinion on stitching dates and at least adding my initials to the reproductions I stitch. Your flosstubes are always so educational with beautiful stitching. Thank you!
Thank you for the continued discussion on the "reproduction" controversy. I'm one who always enjoys continuous learning, and your style of education is really enjoyable, informative and thorough.
My goodness! Thank you so much for your clarifications and definitions about samplers. I am definitely an adaptation stitcher. As an appliqué quilt making designer, etc. throughout my career I could not throw all of that knowledge and color instincts aside to copy the work of a youthful stitcher with limited skill and limited resources from the past. I especially appreciated your logic and advice about signing our work as well! Bravo!👏👏👏👏
Thank you Nicola for showing off your samplers to explain reproduction/adaptation/interpretation. The sampler you stitched for Ray is stunning. Love the hares and the metallic thread in the angel's arrow.
Such beautiful samplers, Nicola! Your sampler(s) for Ray are wonderful - and I know there are a few more. Such a sweet love. Thank you for the very detailed and informative description of reproduction samplers and why you feel that should be the correct term used for what we do. But also like the suggestion of putting our own names and dates on our work. I’ve done that on several pieces but not all. I will in the future! Thanks for encouraging me always. I’ll miss you in Cincinnati! A family wedding calls me to the beach! Love and hugs to you and Ray
Beautiful samplers (especially the band sampler that you customized). Thank you for all the ideas on how to make artful changes to the reproduction charts. Love your videos -- I always learn something from watching them. I hope your back feels better soon!❤
Nicola, thank you for explaining all the ins and outs of reproductions and adapted needlework. I will definitely be putting the true name on Mary Hill 1854, and note my name elsewhere on the finished piece. I love the the big piece you made for your husband, and the Cicely sampler as well.
❤gorgeous samplers found your explanation on reproductions very interesting and using a number of patterns to adapted or interpretation to make it your own 😊 the metallic thread is a brilliant idea and love the way it glows ❤
Oh my, I learned so much! I’ll be starting my first sampler soon, and at the same time stitching for the first time on linen, 32 count. Floss tube videos encourage me to be courageous and just begin! Your videos are so helpful and educational and I hope to one day be able to personalize my stitchy projects. Have safe journey!
Thank you, Nicola, for this interesting and most informative video. I have stitched my name and the date completed toward the edge of the fabric many, many times without considering that it may not ever be seen. I will be rethinking this from now on. I love stitching your reproductions because I know that is what they are with all their quirks from the little girls learning to stitch.
I look forward to Sunday mornings to watch your videos. I will be in Ohio for your class. I am looking forward to meeting you and learning some new stitches from you. My husband jokes and says that cross stitch is a cult and that you are its leader since I have stitched so many of your beautiful reproductions. 😊 Safe travels and fingers crossed that you will bring that design you mentioned in this video that you give out at your special events.
That was such an interesting video, even my husband stayed to watch when he brought my cup of tea! I agree that we should add our names to the samplers and be proud of our work. I saw Jean at th3 Attic speaking to Garry on a Floss Tube video and she said she likes to add, faithfully reproduced by …… and then add the date, to her samplers which I think is lovely. I’ve just finished Agnes Husband and added an extra line in the style of Agnes in similar a colour to the linen so it doesn’t impact the original and I will show that when I frame it. Thank you for sharing your beautiful samplers and extensive knowledge with us.
I often try to hide my initials and the year somewhere in the stitching but after watching this I think that I will put it in a more obvious place. I have even seen some add "reproduced by" on their stitching.
Thank you, as always, for a video that gets me to consider details I don't usually pay attention to. I've spent the past week thinking about how wide a range "reproduction" samplers cover. We can't ever identically reproduce a sampler nowadays -- as you said, the linen or background fabric is necessarily different from 100 or 150 years ago, as are the threads we stitch with and the very path those stitches take to appear on the ground. But the same goes for samplers stitched 100 or 150 years ago, by schoolgirls working the same sampler, taught by the same teacher in the same class. Would we call those reproductions of the teacher's original? Different hands will always create different samplers. I think I will carry on stitching "reproduction" samplers because that's a useful category name to use. I think "faithful reproduction" has even more meaning, as a work done in good faith to honor the original.
I love all these samplers today. I must watch this again. I’m intrigued by the two long ones. Is that a style unique to an area or time period? Your pieces stitched for your husband are lovely. I’m currently working on designing a sampler for my husband quoting a favorite song of ours. Safe travels!
Your Three Sisters band sampler has me absolutely entranced. I was hoping very hard that you would tell us the name of the original that you adapted to create your own! Failing that, I now feel challenged to pull out my favorite bands from some of my favorite band samplers and build something of such color and intricacy for my own joy. (But if you were to tell the name of your inspiration, I'd certainly like that, too.) Thank you for the inspiration!
Hello - you could take any band sampler and divide the bands with verses. Pick one that visually appeals to you. I stitched the band sampler a long time ago and I will have to check back through my journal for that year. I will need to dig it out from a storage chest. We are preparing for builders coming into the house for several months and much of my stitching records have gone into storage. I never recorded the original name on the sampler.
@@nicolaparkman Nicola, you are very kind. While I'd love to know the name of your inspiration sampler, the challenge of building my own is just too tempting. (And I'd never ask you to go through your storage -- even if you *weren't* staring down months of reconstruction!) I have several charts for 17th century band samplers, and it'll be great fun to pick and choose bands, find a lovely poem or quotes, put together a rich and brilliant colourway, and start stitching something new. Thank you so much for the inspiration!
@@nicolaparkman I love that one as well! Is it by chance, EK 1653 ? I believe I saw it on the Scarlet Letter website. Thank you for all the wonderful inspiration.
I think it is always a great idea to put somewhere on the sampler our initials and the year. Then it will be easy to see it’s true idea when it was stitched. Where it can be seen. Labels can fall off of frames, etc. over the years. It is a small thing that clarifies so much. 🐕🦺😎
I'm so excited to meet you at the Queen City Sampler Quild retreat. This will be my first retreat. I have some samplers and sewing items that my great grandmother did and possibly a sampler stitched by my great-great-grandmother. The items were originally part of a book but those pages have designated. Would you mind if I brought them to show you? Having never attended a retreat I'm not sure if there is time for that or not or it's inappropriate.
I’m curious: what way were 1830s samplers stitched in comparison to early 20th century? Also, how was the fabric different and why? It feels a little disengenous to me to just stitch the OG name/date and not make it somehow more obvious it’s a reproduction wrought by me in the 21st century. Like, I want to honor the life of the child that stitched it but not steal her/his thunder. Hmm.
One of my most favorite stitches is a pretty heavy adaptation I made of HATS Mary G. Ramage. I hope this whole discussion gives more stitchers the courage to make samplers, including reproductions their own. Nicola, you mentioned that the little house sampler wasn't stitched in a way reminiscent of 1836. What do you mean by that and how can you tell? Is that related to the technique used, materials used, or something else?
I have a repro sampler I am working on. Problem is , I don't agree with the choices the reproductionist has made, so I am changing a couple of their colors of thread. I feel my choices are better and match the original better. Do I consider this a reproduction or an adaptation?
Hello - that’s an interesting question. I think it would be an adaptation of the chart you are stitching from. Unless you are stitching from a high resolution photograph that showed each stitch and thread of linen in clear definition. You would also have to ensure that your screen is fine tuned to the same RYB or CMYK colours palette.
I would love for you to make a coffee table book of all the samplers you have and the behind the scenes of the reproduction process. That would be a beautiful book.❤
Oh my...the big sampler you did for your husband...just beautiful!!!
Thank you so much for the talk today of samplers! You have always brought me, and probably other stitchers, too, an amazing amount of useful information about needlework. I follow your channel eagerly, knowing that I'll be learning something every time. Have a wonderful week, Nicola 🙂
Those two samplers you stitched, Nicola, are absolutely gorgeous...and I love how you personalized them. :)
It's so fun to see you talking to and interacting with your boys. If I were to say "out" or "walk" in front of my dogs, I had better be ready to do it just then or they would pester me so till I got up and did it. 😅. Your explanation of antique samplers was incredibly interesting, thank you for sharing!
How sweet of you to think my work will be around in 100 years🥰
Thank you for continuing the discussion from the previous Floss Tube to expound on adaptations and interpretations and for showing us your adaptation for your husband. I do agree that for posterity having some visible personalization to indicate what year our stitching was done to distinguish from the year the original sampler was stitched is important.
Also, I may decide to take inspiration from you and personalize and adapt my ancestor’s sampler from 1790. There is a section missing where it appears the lower case letters had been. I have been debating whether to chart and stitch them based on the shadows visible of the first few letters and making a judgment call regarding the numbers or filler motifs if needed or whether to leave it open as it currently is. After your discussion, I may chart some personal info to show I am stitching this in Kezia’s memory.
Hoping you have safe travels to the States. Thank you for all that you do for the needlearts!
Very interesting perspective and information about the concept of reproduction samplers - and examples! I can't wait to see you again in just a couple of weeks, at the QCSG workshop.
I appreciated your video about personalizing samplers so its know who stitched it. I've noticed that some people frown on that but it makes so much sense to put your name and date stitched. I love your educational videos very much. Have a wonderful time at the retreat.
Nicola, you answered my questions on adaptations. I have seen some stitchers take a motif or borders from many different reproduction samplers to create their own personal sampler. As you stated, these adaptations or inspirations are for personal use and enjoyment and would not be charted or sold as an original designed sampler. I plan on adding my name on reproductions as you suggested so that others can see when the chart was completed and avoid confusion.
Oh, Nicola, those samplers are beyond stunning!
Thank you for all your explanations of the reproductions and adapted needlework. I was especially happy to see the Cicely sampler. Leona was working on this in the lobby of the hotel during The Great British Sampler Weekend 2023, and I fell in love with it. I realized that it was only available as a PDF on your site so I searched for the printed booklet. Now I know why I couldn't find it! I will be upgrading my printer so I can download it for an accurate printout. Yes, Conrad (my husband), we need a new printer for my cross-stitch !!! Again, thank you for all that you do for our needlework community.
This was very interesting. I miss last weeks video about your question on reproduction antique samplers. I agree they are reprocuctions and no other words can describe it. I am also a doll maker of inspired and reproduction english , queen anne dolls. We sign our work and i agree we as sampler makers need to leave our mark on the samplers we reproduce in the work of our sampler's. I myself if someone comes into the possession of my work a hundred years from now, i want them to know it is my work. Thank you for all that you do. You are amazing ❤
Thank you so much, Nicola for this very informative and educational video. Your passion and knowledge (and sharing of that knowledge) are incredible. Thank you so much. Happy stitching!
Thank you for your willingness to share the insights you gathered regarding sampler definitions. I learned several things today & I agree with all you said. I am newly motivated to personalize my stitching with my name & date now. Thank you Nicola.
Thank you for your explanations and talk on reproductions and adapted needlework. I hadn’t thought very deeply about it all before, but this has changed my opinion on stitching dates and at least adding my initials to the reproductions I stitch. Your flosstubes are always so educational with beautiful stitching. Thank you!
Thank you for the continued discussion on the "reproduction" controversy. I'm one who always enjoys continuous learning, and your style of education is really enjoyable, informative and thorough.
Yes here in Donegal the weather is good too yesterday and today,long May it last
Excellent summing up of the reproduction issue. Safe travels 😊
My goodness! Thank you so much for your clarifications and definitions about samplers. I am definitely an adaptation stitcher. As an appliqué quilt making designer, etc. throughout my career I could not throw all of that knowledge and color instincts aside to copy the work of a youthful stitcher with limited skill and limited resources from the past. I especially appreciated your logic and advice about signing our work as well! Bravo!👏👏👏👏
The sampler you did for you and Ray is absolutely stunning! You truly have a special gift. Have a wonderful time in the states.❤
Thank you for wonderfully informative video. Your samplers for Ray are beautiful. Enjoy your time away and Happy Stitching ❤❤
Thank you Nicola for showing off your samplers to explain reproduction/adaptation/interpretation. The sampler you stitched for Ray is stunning. Love the hares and the metallic thread in the angel's arrow.
Using antique fabric and thread can also make it very confusing to date a piece. THANK YOU !
Such beautiful samplers, Nicola! Your sampler(s) for Ray are wonderful - and I know there are a few more. Such a sweet love. Thank you for the very detailed and informative description of reproduction samplers and why you feel that should be the correct term used for what we do. But also like the suggestion of putting our own names and dates on our work. I’ve done that on several pieces but not all. I will in the future! Thanks for encouraging me always. I’ll miss you in Cincinnati! A family wedding calls me to the beach! Love and hugs to you and Ray
Beautiful samplers (especially the band sampler that you customized). Thank you for all the ideas on how to make artful changes to the reproduction charts. Love your videos -- I always learn something from watching them. I hope your back feels better soon!❤
Nicola, thank you for explaining all the ins and outs of reproductions and adapted needlework. I will definitely be putting the true name on Mary Hill 1854, and note my name elsewhere on the finished piece. I love the the big piece you made for your husband, and the Cicely sampler as well.
❤gorgeous samplers found your explanation on reproductions very interesting and using a number of patterns to adapted or interpretation to make it your own 😊 the metallic thread is a brilliant idea and love the way it glows ❤
Oh my, I learned so much! I’ll be starting my first sampler soon, and at the same time stitching for the first time on linen, 32 count. Floss tube videos encourage me to be courageous and just begin! Your videos are so helpful and educational and I hope to one day be able to personalize my stitchy projects. Have safe journey!
Thank you, Nicola, for this interesting and most informative video. I have stitched my name and the date completed toward the edge of the fabric many, many times without considering that it may not ever be seen. I will be rethinking this from now on. I love stitching your reproductions because I know that is what they are with all their quirks from the little girls learning to stitch.
I look forward to Sunday mornings to watch your videos. I will be in Ohio for your class. I am looking forward to meeting you and learning some new stitches from you. My husband jokes and says that cross stitch is a cult and that you are its leader since I have stitched so many of your beautiful reproductions. 😊 Safe travels and fingers crossed that you will bring that design you mentioned in this video that you give out at your special events.
That was such an interesting video, even my husband stayed to watch when he brought my cup of tea! I agree that we should add our names to the samplers and be proud of our work. I saw Jean at th3 Attic speaking to Garry on a Floss Tube video and she said she likes to add, faithfully reproduced by …… and then add the date, to her samplers which I think is lovely. I’ve just finished Agnes Husband and added an extra line in the style of Agnes in similar a colour to the linen so it doesn’t impact the original and I will show that when I frame it. Thank you for sharing your beautiful samplers and extensive knowledge with us.
Thanks so much, Nicola! So much to know, and you share your joy and love of stitching and samplers so very well.
Thank you for sharing!! Your knowledge is amazing!! I appreciate you taking the time to enlighten us all. I wish you safe travels!!♥️
I often try to hide my initials and the year somewhere in the stitching but after watching this I think that I will put it in a more obvious place. I have even seen some add "reproduced by" on their stitching.
Hi Nicola, great video about reproduction samplers. It was good to see Bertie. Enjoy your walk with your husband and the dogs. TTFN
Love the samplers you stitched a decade ago. Happy stitching
Wonderfully informative, thank you.
I loved the sampler for your 3 sisters. Enjoy the Queen City retreat/workshop!
Thank you, as always, for a video that gets me to consider details I don't usually pay attention to. I've spent the past week thinking about how wide a range "reproduction" samplers cover. We can't ever identically reproduce a sampler nowadays -- as you said, the linen or background fabric is necessarily different from 100 or 150 years ago, as are the threads we stitch with and the very path those stitches take to appear on the ground. But the same goes for samplers stitched 100 or 150 years ago, by schoolgirls working the same sampler, taught by the same teacher in the same class. Would we call those reproductions of the teacher's original? Different hands will always create different samplers. I think I will carry on stitching "reproduction" samplers because that's a useful category name to use. I think "faithful reproduction" has even more meaning, as a work done in good faith to honor the original.
Would you mind posting the pattern names and designers of the original fesigns you adapted? Especially the band sampler- they are my favourites!
I love all these samplers today. I must watch this again. I’m intrigued by the two long ones. Is that a style unique to an area or time period? Your pieces stitched for your husband are lovely. I’m currently working on designing a sampler for my husband quoting a favorite song of ours.
Safe travels!
Your Three Sisters band sampler has me absolutely entranced. I was hoping very hard that you would tell us the name of the original that you adapted to create your own! Failing that, I now feel challenged to pull out my favorite bands from some of my favorite band samplers and build something of such color and intricacy for my own joy. (But if you were to tell the name of your inspiration, I'd certainly like that, too.) Thank you for the inspiration!
Hello - you could take any band sampler and divide the bands with verses. Pick one that visually appeals to you. I stitched the band sampler a long time ago and I will have to check back through my journal for that year. I will need to dig it out from a storage chest. We are preparing for builders coming into the house for several months and much of my stitching records have gone into storage. I never recorded the original name on the sampler.
@@nicolaparkman Nicola, you are very kind. While I'd love to know the name of your inspiration sampler, the challenge of building my own is just too tempting. (And I'd never ask you to go through your storage -- even if you *weren't* staring down months of reconstruction!) I have several charts for 17th century band samplers, and it'll be great fun to pick and choose bands, find a lovely poem or quotes, put together a rich and brilliant colourway, and start stitching something new. Thank you so much for the inspiration!
@@nicolaparkman I love that one as well! Is it by chance, EK 1653 ? I believe I saw it on the Scarlet Letter website. Thank you for all the wonderful inspiration.
I think it is always a great idea to put somewhere on the sampler our initials and the year. Then it will be easy to see it’s true idea when it was stitched. Where it can be seen. Labels can fall off of frames, etc. over the years. It is a small thing that clarifies so much. 🐕🦺😎
I'm so excited to meet you at the Queen City Sampler Quild retreat. This will be my first retreat. I have some samplers and sewing items that my great grandmother did and possibly a sampler stitched by my great-great-grandmother. The items were originally part of a book but those pages have designated. Would you mind if I brought them to show you? Having never attended a retreat I'm not sure if there is time for that or not or it's inappropriate.
Hello Barbara please bring them. I will enjoy seeing them and I am certain other attendees will too ! See you soon xxx
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I’m curious: what way were 1830s samplers stitched in comparison to early 20th century? Also, how was the fabric different and why? It feels a little disengenous to me to just stitch the OG name/date and not make it somehow more obvious it’s a reproduction wrought by me in the 21st century. Like, I want to honor the life of the child that stitched it but not steal her/his thunder. Hmm.
One of my most favorite stitches is a pretty heavy adaptation I made of HATS Mary G. Ramage. I hope this whole discussion gives more stitchers the courage to make samplers, including reproductions their own.
Nicola, you mentioned that the little house sampler wasn't stitched in a way reminiscent of 1836. What do you mean by that and how can you tell? Is that related to the technique used, materials used, or something else?
Hello - I will need to show the sampler to explain. When I get back from the USA I will show it again and talk in more detail.
@@nicolaparkman Thanks, Nicola! I'm merely just curious but am fascinated nonetheless. Safe travels to the US!
I have a repro sampler I am working on. Problem is , I don't agree with the choices the reproductionist has made, so I am changing a couple of their colors of thread. I feel my choices are better and match the original better. Do I consider this a reproduction or an adaptation?
Hello - that’s an interesting question. I think it would be an adaptation of the chart you are stitching from. Unless you are stitching from a high resolution photograph that showed each stitch and thread of linen in clear definition. You would also have to ensure that your screen is fine tuned to the same RYB or CMYK colours palette.
@@nicolaparkman I was comparing with a photo in a book...also their color choice disappear against the fabric...so I chose the next darker DMC...
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