Stitching the World: Embroidered Maps and Women's Geographical Education by Judith A. Tyner

Stitching the World: Embroidered Maps and Women's Geographical Education

Studies in Historical Geography

Judith A. Tyner

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From the late eighteenth century until about 1840, schoolgirls in the British Isles and the United States created embroidered map samplers and even silk globes. Hundreds of British maps were made and although American examples are more rare, they ...

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