Rachel M. Woolsey's Sampler
name: label: maker
content: Woolsey, Rachel
notes: label: Description
content: This sampler by Rachel M. Woolsey, dating to 1838, is stitched with silk and cotton embroidery thread on a linen ground with a thread count of warp 24, weft 24/ in. The stitches used are cross, four-sided, Algerian Eye, crosslet, and two-sided Italian cross. The inscription is: “Rachel M Woolsey aged 10 yrs 9 mo 13 da Feb 27 1838.” Rachael Woolsey was born on May 13, 1827, in Newburgh, New York to Elijah (1800 - 1867) and Phebe Crawford (1803 - 1883) Woolsey. Elijah was the caption of the packet sloop Illinois. She married E. W. Cozzens. She died on October 12, 1881, and is buried in Old Town Burying Ground, Newburgh, New York.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Home and Community Life: Textiles
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Mrs. Daniel Gardner
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: TE.H37550
label: catalog number
content: H037550.000
label: accession number
content: 115031
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Embroidery, Sampler
label: Object Name
content: sampler
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: linen (overall ground)
label: Physical Description
content: silk (overall thread)