Hannah Hall's Sampler; 1803
date: label: date made
content: 1803
name: label: maker
content: Hall, Hannah
notes: label: Description
content: This sampler features two block alphabets, and below the alphabets are flower-baskets, trees, birds, and dogs. The flower baskets on this sampler may stand for friendship and love, while the birds are spirits of the air, and dogs denote fidelity and watchfulness. It is hemstitched on all four sides. Hannah included the inscription:
label: Description
content: <br>“Hannah Hall / AE 12 1803”<br>
label: Description
content: The sampler is stitched with silk embroidery thread on a linen ground with a thread count of warp 25, weft 22/ in. The stitches used are cross, crosslet, satin, and reverse tent.
label: Description
content: Nothing is known about the life of Hannah Hall.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Home and Community Life: Textiles
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content: Samplers
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content: Textiles
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Mrs. Gladys M. Cox
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: TE.T12186
label: catalog number
content: T12186
label: accession number
content: 233422
objectType: label: Object Name
content: embroidery, sampler
label: Object Name
content: sampler
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: linen (ground material)
label: Physical Description
content: silk (embroidery thread material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 17 3/8 in x 11 1/4 in; 44.1325 cm x 28.575 cm