Lord's Prayer, the, 27 Maidstone Museum, tapestry picture. Plate I. Map samplers, 92. Figs. 39-41 Materials on which samplers were worked, 171 Mermaid on sampler, Fig. 16 Metal thread, 153 Milton, mention of sampler by, 14 Mitford, Miss, on samplers, 118 Mortlake tapestries, 100 Moses in the bullrushes, 129 Mustard or canary-coloured canvas, 55 National events, samplers as records of, 90 Need of samplers, 11 Needle's excellency, the, 115, 116, 143 Numerals on samplers, 22 Oak, see "Acorn" Origin of samplers, place of, 88 Ornament, sampler, 51 Ornamentation, earliest date of various forms of, 21 Orpheus, 128 Parents and preceptors, duties to, 46 Passing, 154 Passion Week samplers, 38 Patternes of cut workes, 115 Peacocks' feathers, use of, 154 Pearls, seed, on tapestry embroideries, 133--_note_ Pears, 109 Pineapple on samplers, 68 Pink on samplers, 66, 78, 109. Plates III., IV., VI. Fig. 28 Place of origin of samplers, 88 Plush-stitch, 153. Plate XVIII. Portuguese samplers, 112 Poverty, inscriptions concerning, 48 Prayers on samplers, 39 Preceptors, duties to, 46 Purl, 153. Plate XXIII. Quaint inscriptions, 49 Religious festivals, verses commemorating, 36 Rhymes on samplers, see "Verses" Royal personages on tapestry embroideries, 133 Royal school of art needlework, 120 Rose on samplers, 58, 66, 109 (Figs. 7, 16, Plate VI.); on tapestry embroideries, 113 Ruskin, John, on needlework in museums, 2; on samplers, 3; sampler by grandmother of, 3, and Plate X. Samplers. Parts I. and III. (Sec. II.) Satin-stitch, 122, 141, 146 Scottish samplers, 71, 84, 89. Figs. 21, 34 Sex of sampler workers, 80 Shakespeare, mention of sampler by, 13 Sidney, Sir P., mention of sampler by, 14 Signatures on samplers, 23 Size of samplers, 84 Smoke (chimney) on embroideries, 135. Fig. 57 Spanish samplers, 112 _Spectator_ on decay of needlework, 117 Spies to Canaan, 21 Split-stitch, 150. Figs. 65, 66 Stag on samplers, 21, 65, 80. Figs. 6, 17. Plates III., VIII. Star-stitch, 169. Figs. 35, 36 Stem-stitch, 150 Stitchery of tapestry pictures, 143; of samplers, 161 Stitches, background, 144; cushion, 144; tent, 144; Gobelin, 145; upright, 145; Florentine, 145; Hungary, 145; satin, 146; open, 146; buttonhole, 146; eyelet, 149 (Fig. 63); split, 152 (Figs. 65, 66); stem, 150; knot, 151; looped, 152; plush, 153; purl, 153; passing, 154; lace, sampler stitches, 154; hollie point, 157 (Fig. 61); cut and drawn-work, 161; back-stitch, 163 (Fig. 75); alphabet-stitch, 164; darning-stitch, 165 (Plate XXIV. and Figs. 8, 76); tent and cross-stitch, 166; various, 170 Strawberry on samplers, 66. Fig. 31. Plate XIII. Stump embroidery, 149