Certainly, recently discovered darning samplers consisting of six or nine separate one darn only mini-samplers and joined together by bobbin lace now forms a group. It's a somewhat unusual group. With an unexpected source. Techniques other than darning work itself were sometimes practiced on Dutch darning samplers. Occasionally, they are decorated with a border or floral pattern, sometimes with needle lace or whitework. The result can look beautiful and showcase all the skill

The question was whether the famous Broek in Waterland samplers, typically created by girls around the ages of 10-11, were their only needlework. Was there more? As suspected, there was! The later work likely involved whitework, a fashionable technique to practice at the time. These pieces are rare, often undated, and rarely signed, leaving us puzzled. They were often mistakenly attributed to the isle of Marken until the whitework sampler by Immetje provided evidence of what

Door mijn gedaan ; Done by me … Over the course of a century, between 1715-1815, approximately 140 girls from Middelburg were educated by more than twenty teachers. Maria Letellier was the most prolific and likely the most influential teacher, with her name appearing 23 times on samplers from the 1750s to the 1770s. She was followed by teachers Tannetje Wackeroet, whose name appeared 18 times, and Adriana de Vroe, with 15 times her name on a sampler..