Comfort Chamberlin's Sampler
date: label: Date made
content: 1805
label: associated dates
content: 1968 01 17 / 1968 01 17
notes: label: Description
content: This sampler by Comfort Camberlin, dating to 1805, is stitched in cross stitch with silk embroidery thread on a linen ground with a thread count of warp 37, weft 38/ in. The inscription is: “COMFORT CHAMBERLIN 1805.” Comfort Chamberlin was born in 1787 to Samuel (1743-1821) and Sybil Thompson (ca. 1753-1837) Chamberlin in Kent, Litchfield Co., Connecticut. She did not marry and died April 11, 1873, in Kent, Connecticut.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States
setName: label: See more items in
content: Home and Community Life: Textiles
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Susanne G. Swift
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: TE.T14463
label: accession number
content: 275377
label: catalog number
content: T14463.000
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Sampler
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silk (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: linen (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: brown (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: blue (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: cream (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: embroidery (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 9 in x 5 1/4 in; x 22.86 cm x 13.335 cm