Episode 10

Unstitching Colonialism: South Indian Missionary School Samplers (16 July 2020)

  •  A sampler made a girl named Sarah in Tinnevelly, South India, May 1847, from Birmingham’s Cadbury Library
  • A sampler made in South India, 1860, from Birmingham’s Cadbury Library
  • A sampler made by Sarah in Tinnevelly, June 1848, from Birmingham’s Cadbury Library
  • A sampler made by Karikadenqakil Ellichee at Mrs Baker Sener’s school in Travancore, India, 28 February 1887, from Birmingham’s Cadbury Library
  • A sampler made by Caroline Cuffley Giberne, from Birmingham’s Cadbury Library
  • A sampler made at the Cheltenham Female Orphan Asylum, 1806, from the Metropolitan Museum of Art
  • A sampler made by L. Matthews at a charity school, 1853, from the Metropolitan Museum of Art
  • A 19th-century sampler made by a girl named Sotio at the Krishnagur Girls School in India, from Cooper Hewitt
  • A Bristol orphanage sampler made by Mary Ann Tipper, 1868, from the Fitzwilliam Museum