About this Product
Celebrate Votes For Women! with suffragist Sojourner Truth.
Designed specifically for redwork embroidery, this simple line drawing is perfect for hand embroidery, as a relaxing coloring page, or combine the two and create a one-of-a-kind, crayon tinted, embroidered masterpiece.
About this pattern: Sojourner Truth (1797-1883) was born a slave named Isabella Baumfree in New York’s Hudson Valley & escaped to freedom in 1826. Renaming herself Sojourner Truth in 1843, she went on to deliver her most famous speech in 1851 at the Ohio Women's Rights Convention in Akron. The year before, Truth dictated her story to a friend. The book was published by William Lloyd Garrison as The Narrative of Sojourner Truth: a Northern Slave. She was one of many suffragists who attempted to vote in the election of 1872. Some succeeded, some were arrested (like Susan B. & Mary S. Anthony), most were turned away like Truth.
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Pattern design by Patricia F. (Tisha) Dolton, aprilsongstress designs - aprilsongstress.com - © 2017-2025 - Sojourner Truth (1797-1883) Abolitionist & Suffragist Pattern also featured in the book New York Suffragists in Redwork - © 2022
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Meet the Maker
Tisha Dolton is a librarian, public historian, singer and embroidery artist specializing in the women's suffrage movement. She creates original patterns and hand embroiders portraits of suffragists and other inspirational people, mainly women.
How it’s Made
Pattern drawn by me using paper and marker, then scanned and made into a PDF. Biography researched and written by me.
