Margaret Arndt's Sampler
date: label: date made
content: 1815
name: label: maker
content: Arndt, Margaret
notes: label: Description
content: At bottom of the sampler is an unfinished two-story house with two baskets and an urn of flowers, on a ground of straight stitches shaded like Florentine patterns. Margaret Arndt stitched a common proverb that reflected the importance at that time of one’s salvation in Christ. The inscription reads:
label: Description
content: <br>“The LOSE of a FaThEr IS MUSh<br>BUT The LOZE OF a MOTher IS MOOR<br>BUT the LOSE OF ChrIST IS SUCh<br>AS NONe CAN RE STOre<br>DONe IN MY AELEVe<br>Nth YeAr OF my<br>Age the YeAr OF<br>OUR LOrd ONe ThOUSaNd 1815<br>Margaret Arndt”<br>
label: Description
content: The sampler is stitched with silk and cotton embroidery thread on a linen ground with a thread count of warp 27, weft 29/in. The stitches used are cross, chain, Algerian eye, satin, stem, outline, buttonhole, straight, crosslet, slanted gobelin, and hem.
label: Description
content: Margaret Arndt, born ca. 1804 in Pennsylvania, married on June 11, 1833, as the second wife of Henry DeHuff (1794 - 1854). They had six children - Catherine (c.1834-), Jacob A. (c.1836-), Abraham (c.1838-), Anna (1840-), Susannah (c.1845-), and John (c.1848-).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Pennsylvania
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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 Margaret Lee Gaver
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: TE.T16418
label: catalog number
content: T16418
label: accession number
content: 304266
objectType: label: Object Name
content: embroidery, sampler
label: Object Name
content: sampler
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: linen (ground material)
label: Physical Description
content: cotton (embroidery thread material)
label: Physical Description
content: silk (embroidery thread material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 13 in x 11 1/2 in; 33.02 cm x 29.21 cm