{"id":506,"date":"2013-01-11T20:54:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-11T20:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/11\/needlework-maps-and-globes-2\/"},"modified":"2013-01-11T20:54:00","modified_gmt":"2013-01-11T20:54:00","slug":"needlework-maps-and-globes-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/needlework-maps-and-globes-2.html","title":{"rendered":"Needlework Maps and Globes"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\nNeedlework Maps and Globes<\/div>\n
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\nI have always loved maps. 
\nNot the fold-ups found in gas stations (I have never met one I could
\nactually refold after using it).  I love
\nold maps, antiques maps found in reference atlases in university
\nlibraries.  These tell stories of
\nadventure and the perils of travel and exploration.  The cartographers were often more wrong than correct in their
\ndepictions of the world, but that didn\u2019t dissuade them from publishing sought
\nafter charts and maps filled with strange names and sketches of native plants
\nand animals ( all products of the imagination) and fantastic creatures living
\nin the sea. <\/o:p><\/div>\n
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\nThis is a great book, first published in 1949, featuring pages and pages of old map illustrations.<\/div>\n
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\nOne can find needlework maps and globes which were produced
\nfrom the late 1700\u2019s onwards by schoolgirls showing their proficiency at
\nsampler work and their lessons in geography. These samplers were worked both in
\nEurope and America.  In England they
\nwere worked in linen, silk or cotton satin grounds.  Frequently lines of latitude and longitude or compass points were
\nincluded.<\/div>\n
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\n This Fitzwilliam Museum publication, Samplers, contains
\nseveral examples of map and globe samplers.<\/div>\n
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\nFitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, England <\/o:p><\/div>\n
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\nAmerican students produced maps, not only of the world and
\nNorth America, but also of their state and sometimes, even their county.
\nOccasionally, the students used printed silk ground and embroidered over the
\noutlines, frequently leaving the fine details such as lettering to be traced
\nover with ink.<\/div>\n
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\nThis sampler map of  Pennsylvania was made of needle-lace patterns on a net ground <\/div>\n
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\nOften these school samplers were quite crude with latitude
\nand longitude lines merely couched and little actual embroidery beyond the
\nsatin stitch.  There are others which
\nwere rendered with elaborate stitchery, often featuring those mythical strange
\ncreatures found on paper printed maps. 
\nSome globe samplers often included special stands made for display.<\/div>\n
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\nOne source of these geographical schoolgirl samplers is
\nregional historic societies, especially in New England, New York and
\nPennsylvania.<\/div>\n
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Needlework Maps and Globes I have always loved maps.  Not the fold-ups found in gas stations (I have never met one I could actually refold after using it).  I love old maps, antiques maps found in reference atlases in university libraries.  These tell stories of adventure and the perils of travel and exploration.  The cartographers…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-needlework-maps","category-schoolgirl-samplers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}