Ane Henriksen

Well into my 50s I took up the sampler tradition, and in excessive pink tones I marked a new beginning using symbols and good omens in hope of a bright future... Self-deprecatingly, I tried to go all the way and flirted with banality, with a result that became a story between a sampler and a kind of Millefleur look-alike. 
Samplers are a form of social history that can be reminiscent of finding a page from a diary. You can see a sampler as a small personal greeting. The sampler was the place where the individual woman could develop herself individually and express her personality. Women were not admitted to the art academy, and for many women it was thus in embroidery that they could find an outlet for their creativity. (Broderihaandbogen.dk)