Caroline Butler sampler, 1818; English?
date: label: Date made
content: 1818
notes: label: Description
content: A silk on wool sampler with selvage at top and bottom. The ground is wool, with two sets of blue wool yarns in each selvage. The embroidery is silk. The hemming thread is 2-ply cotton. The design includes a verse, "On Youth"; house and windmill on a striped hill, with birds, trees, flower-baskets, within a geometric flowering-vine border. Stitched name and date: Caroline Butler, July 8, 1818. Probably English. 13 1/8" L x 11 1/2" W. Plain weave wool ground; Stitches: cross and four sided.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: made in
content: United Kingdom: England
setName: label: See more items in
content: Home and Community Life: Textiles
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content: Samplers
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: TE.T13675
label: catalog number
content: T13675
label: accession number
content: 260696
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Sampler
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wool (overall ground)
label: Physical Description
content: silk (overall thread)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 13 1/8 in x 11 3/8 in; 33.3375 cm x 28.8925 cm