Season 3, Episode 3 (Episode 49)

Geography and Needlework in the American South: An Interview with Emily Wells

  • Emily Wells
  • Raised work picture showing Harmony and the Four Continents, 1650-75, England, Colonial Williamsburg
  • Map of England, Ann Rhodes, finished 26 April 1780, England, Victoria and Albert Museum


  • Pleasant Valley Map sampler, Ann Colson, 1809. Dutchess County, New York, Colonial Williamsburg
  • Washington D.C. map sampler, Elizabeth Graham, 1800-3, Alexandria, Virginia, Winterthur
  • Embroidered globe, Hannah E. Deacon, c. 1815-7, Westtown School, West Chester, Pennsylvania, Monmouth County Historical Association
  • Westtown globe at Westtown School


  • Needlework portrait attributed to Emma Louisa Lanneau Gildersleeve, 1820-5, South Carolina, The Rivers Collection


  • Ashley’s Sack, embroidered upon by Ruth (Jones) Middleton, 1850s, embroidery added 1921, South Carolina (?), Middleton Place
  • Rita’s Quilt, Shannon Downey and many stitchers from around the USA, 2019

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