Charlotte Fowler's Sampler
date: label: Date made
content: 1807
label: associated dates
content: 1965 04 28 / 1965 04 28
notes: label: Description
content: This sampler by Charlotte Fowler, dating to 1807, is stitched with silk embroidery thread on a linen ground with a thread count of warp 26, weft 24/in. In religion I look for comfort & in reliogion/I always find it/Charlotte Fowler born Nov 18th 1778/Westfield Oct. 12th/1807 Charlotte Fowler was born to Abner and Rhoda Dewey Fowler in Westfield, Massachusetts. On November 18, 1807 she married Henry Viets (1772-1866). They had seven children – Henry (1808 – 1894), Charlotte (1810 – 1880), William Atwater (1813 -), Margaret (1816 – 1849), Maria (1819 – 1858), Jane (1821 -), and Abner Fowler (1824 – 1825). She died May 3, 1841.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Massachusetts, Westfield
setName: label: See more items in
content: Home and Community Life: Textiles
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: TE.T19313.01
label: accession number
content: 259922
label: catalog number
content: T19313.01
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: black (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: rose (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: green (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: rust (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: tan ground (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: embroidery (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 9 3/8 in x 12 3/4 in; x 23.8125 cm x 32.385 cm