Pezzoli-Olgiati, Daria2023-05-232023-05-232021https://www.jrfm.eu/index.php/ojs_jrfm/article/view/232https://mediarep.org/handle/doc/20738Samplers are important sources for exploring the interaction between religion, text, and materiality. For centuries, needlework has been a textile technique to teach girl a skill that may have ensured an income. By means of stitches and threads, young women learned basic knowledge, patience and moral judgment. This article explores a unique sampler from the middle of the nineteenth century in Southern England. The author, a young girl called Elizabeth Parker, transforms the practice of embroidering a sampler by stitching a text that challenges social and religious conventions. The document offers a deep insight into the life, knowledge and religious life of a working girl class that “could not write” but could articulate herself by means of an ancient textile technique.engCreative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 4.0 GenericSamplersReligiousMaterialityPractice20010.25364/05.7:2021.1.610.25969/mediarep/195432617-3697