“A Sampling of Hunterdon County Needlework”

June 22, 1:00-2:15 pm
The Acme Screening Room
25 S. Union Street
Lambertville, NJ 08530

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LHS members attend for free.
$10 for non-members
$5 for non-member students

Join us for a presentation by independent textile scholar Marty Campanelli on samplers and a look into Hunterdon County’s past.

Elizabeth E. Ten Broeck stitched this sampler in 1834 at a school in Readington Village, under the instruction of Amy S. Lundy. Sampler from the Campanelli Collection.

Samplers are a visual and graphic reminder of a young girl or teenager’s education, as well as of the talented women who taught them these skills. As a farming community in the late 1700s and early 1800s, Hunterdon County, N.J. was home to a number of diverse sampler groups. Campanelli will discuss the various styles including the now recognized “collared deer” school, Eliza Rue’s School in Pennington, the “Redington” School, and the “Hunterdon House & Heart” samplers taught by Amy and Elizabeth Lundy. New research on these groups, the instructors who taught the designs, and some sampler maker’s life stories will round out the lecture. Campanelli will also discuss how some of the designs came to Hunterdon and where they migrated afterwards.

Attendees are welcome to bring their Hunterdon samplers (or a photo of) for documentation afterwards by Campanelli, who is an authority on New Jersey samplers, having co-authored two publications on the subject, written numerous articles, and co-curated the exhibit “Hail Specimen of Female Art!” at the Morven Museum & Garden in 2014-2015.  Marty and her late husband, Dan, wrote the only book on Hunterdon County needlework samplers in 2013 and she has lectured widely on the subject.