Sewing instruction book samples
date: label: Date
content: 1829
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: a) Sampler with letters worked in red as cross borders. b) Sampler on wool fabric with alphabets, numbers, and one cross border worked in brown, yellow, and green. c) Sampler with alphabet, numbers and cross borders worked in blue. d) Sampler worked in colors in design of two floral cross borders and a floral ornament surrounding "Maria Smith 184_." e) Sampler worked in colors of wool with two alphabets, numbers and floral ornament. f) Sampler (unfinished) with fourteen letters worked in brown silk.
place: label: made in
content: USA
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Textiles Department
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1945-20-4-a/f
objectType: label: Type
content: sample books
label: Type
content: Sewing instruction book samples
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Medium: linen, wool Technique: embroidered on plain weave
label: Dimensions
content: H x W (a): 19.2 × 15 cm (7 9/16 × 5 7/8 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: H x W (b): 21.2 × 14.2 cm (8 3/8 × 5 9/16 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: H x W (c): 19.5 × 15.5 cm (7 11/16 × 6 1/8 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: H x W (d): 20.5 × 15.2 cm (8 1/16 in. × 6 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: H x W (e): 20.2 × 15 cm (7 15/16 × 5 7/8 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: H x W (f): 21.5 × 14.7 cm (8 7/16 × 5 13/16 in.)