This is a sampler made by my mother. She was taught how to make them by her grandmother, Mary Williams (nee Trowbridge) from More Crichel, Dorset, whom I believe was probably a spare time button maker. I know Mary was still alive in 1912; my mother says she was taught how to make them by her grandmother when she was only seven, which would have been in 1914. My mother was severely disabled, but went on to become a court dressmaker, so she started on the sewing young !
