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Tragic family stories underlie the textiles. In January the Campanellis paid $3,750 at Sotheby’s in New York for an 1820s graveyard landscape stitched in silk. The teenage sewer, Eliza Harding, dedicated the piece to her own dead relatives: two infant siblings and her mother, Sarah. Eliza’s father, Noah, remarried seven months after Sarah died, and the embroidery was never finished or framed. “The stepmother probably didn’t want to hang this in the house,” Ms. Campanelli said.Collectors of Girls’ Sampler Embroidery on East Coast - NYTimes.com
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