The girl (Ann Gilrye) who made this sampler in 1815 recorded both her father and mother (DG and MG: David and Margaret Gilrye) and the initials of her living and deceased siblings.

This is a framed cloth stitch sampler with coloured floral and animal decoration above a front elevation of a house and drive. The lowest segment has several sets of initials within and around a dated box.

Emigration has been a feature of Scottish Lowland life for centuries and this sampler was taken by a Dunbar family to the United States. One of the family, John Muir, became a famous early conservationist and the sampler hung in his Californian house when it became a Historical Monument or museum in the 1960s.

If you're travelling around Scotland then you can see the sampler at the John Muir Birthplace Museum in Dunbar.