Friday, May 17, a.m.

We saw a tremendous sampler collection this morning at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge. Our guide, Carol, had the English samplers laid out by age with the next-to-oldest being from the 1600s and going up ino the 20th century, and a small group of samplers from other countries. A few of the samplers were not finished, giving a great view of uncompleted motifs, showing their construction. Once I can get blogger to accept my pictures (current theory is that the files are too large), I'll put some splendid examples up.