sentences:  Buttonhole stitches are also used in cutwork, including Broderie Anglaise, and form the basis for many forms of needlelace.This stitch is well represented on 16th- and 17th-century whitework items (samplers, ruffs, and cuffs), Elizabethan-era clothing, and the colorful traditional band samplers.The buttonhole stitch appeared on the Jane Bostocke sampler (1598) which is the earliest, signed sampler known to date and is presently housed in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.