Unstitching Colonialism: South Indian Missionary School Samplers
Sew What?
English - July 16, 2020 11:00 - 32 minutes - 22.3 MBVisual Arts Arts Design Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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In this episode, Isabella examines a group of mid-19th-century samplers made by South Indian girls in a missionary school run by a British woman. She discusses the intersection of these samplers and colonialism, focusing on evidence of colonialism in the samplers' threads, inscriptions, and compositions.