No matter how sweet the sentiment of antique samplers, they do have a dark and limiting history for the girls that stitched them even in era of the Industrial Revolution when most were forced into cities to work the factories, some were able to gain new status and wealth but most girl's lives whether rich or poor were still controlled by others. 

Episode 4 of my series on why women stitch is a reminder that some of us have a heritage of needing to stitch and some have a heritage of stitching for pleasure.

In this podcast on pondering women's place in Art, Literature and Culture we finally return for the third episode of the "History of Women Stitching and talk about how we do our laundry and have done it has a lot to do with privilege.