B Holländer's Sampler
date: label: date made
content: 1845
name: label: maker
content: Hollander, B.
notes: label: Description
content: This sampler features one Hebrew alphabet of 21 consonants. (Vowels were not included in the Hebrew alphabet.) The inscription on the bottom includes a first initial, the last name, and date: “B Holländer 1845.” The sampler was stitched with silk embroidery thread on a cotton ground with a thread count of warp 35, weft 35/in. It is very similar to the sampler stitched by B Lazarus 1843. These may have been done at the same school. There are very few known Jewish samplers and these are a welcome addition to the collection.
label: Description
content: B Holländer has not yet been identified.
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content: Home and Community Life: Textiles
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content: Samplers
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content: Textiles
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2011.0040.01
label: catalog number
content: 2011.0040.01
label: accession number
content: 2011.0040
objectType: label: Object Name
content: sampler
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: cotton (overall ground)
label: Physical Description
content: silk (overall thread)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 10 in x 9 1/2 in; 25.4 cm x 24.13 cm