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By the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries however, when this example was made, samplers were increasingly being used as an educational tool for girls from all social backgrounds. Samplers also had an increasingly pictoral focus by this time, often framed with embroidered border patterns; the use of moralising texts and motifs also served as an expression of dutiful piety. This example was made by Annie Cass, aged ten in 1886. ","physicalDescription":"Wool stitches in bright green, organge, blue, brown, red and yellow on open weave linen canvas. Decoration includes letters of the alphabet in various bright colours, a religious text reading 'On the cross we shed his blood', a large central image of a cross toppped with a basket containing flowers and four birds (two sitting on trees) framing the image. There is a green border.  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The donor advised that his mother acquired the samplers over several years as she was the Chair of the Embroiderers' Guild in Yorkshire. He believes the period of acquisition would have been 1970-2005, and that a number were donated by a good friend in the 1970's, whilst others were purchased or a gift from others. ","historicalContext":"In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries samplers were increasingly being used as an educational tool for girls from all social backgrounds. This sampler forms part of a total of fourteen examples donated to the Museum by Peter Orr, ranging in date from 1785-1886.","briefDescription":"Sampler with wool stitches in bright green, organge, blue, brown, red and yellow on open weave linen canvas. 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