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Rare Robert Burns family needlework returned to Scotland

Two rare needlework samplers thought to have been embroidered by Robert Burns’ mother and sister have been returned to the poet’s birthplace, with the support of a NationalTrust for Scotland (NTS) donor based in the USA.

The two samplers, one attributed to the poet’s

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