Lydia Dickman's Sampler
date: label: Date made
content: 1735
name: label: maker
content: Dickman, Lydia
notes: label: Description
content: Two block alphabets with no "J" or "U" with each letter in alphabets and each word in inscription different color. Ten narrow decorative crossbands, three wide crossbands, and narrow geometric crossbands separating these and lettered rows; last crossband has row of strawberry(?) motifs against background solidly filled with cross stitches and first nine letters of lower-case alphabet. All four edges hemstitched with yellow silk thread. Wool and silk embroidery thread on linen ground. STITCHES: cross, two-sided cross, eyelet, marking cross, gobelin, satin, tent (petit-point), hem. THREAD COUNT: warp 46, weft 43/in.<br>
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content: <B>Inscription:</B><br>
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content: "LYDIA DIC<br>KMaN IS MY NAMe AND ENGL<br>AND IS MY NATION aND BOST<br>ON IS MY DWeLLING PlaC aND<br>CHRIST IS MY SALVATION DON<br>e IN THIRTeeN YeAR OF MY<br>age 1735"<br>
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content: <B>Background:</B><br>
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content: Lydia was born about 1722, and married Francis Shaw of Boston, Massachusetts, on January 1, 1745. They had one son, Thomas, who was born December 11, 1745. Lydia died in Boston on December 26, 1746, just a year after the birth of her son.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Massachusetts, Boston
topic: label: depicted
content: Alphabets
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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 Dr. and Mrs. Arthur M Greenwood
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: TE.E388182-a
label: catalog number
content: E.388182-a
label: accession number
content: 182022
objectType: label: Object Name
content: sampler
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: linen (ground fabric material)
label: Physical Description
content: silk (embroidery thread material)
label: Physical Description
content: yellow (overall color)
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content: green (overall color)
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content: red (overall color)
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content: violet (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: rust (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: tan ground (overall color)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 18 1/8 in x 7 in; 46.0375 cm x 17.78 cm