Lydia Hindes' Sampler
name: label: maker
content: Hindes, Lydia
notes: label: Description
content: This sampler by Lydia Hindes, dating to 1825, is stitched with silk embroidery thread on a linen ground with a thread count of warp 22, weft 22/ in. The same urn of flowers appears on her mother's sampler. See TE*T13213 The stitches used are cross, crosslet, and queen. The inscription is: "Lydia / Hindes / her work / age 9 y /ears July 26 / th 1825 / Regard no / t your bea / uty but / chiefly take / care That your mind is / well furnished / the matter lies there.” Lydia was born c. 1816 to Joseph and Abigail Cory Hindes in Elizabeth, Westfield, New Jersey. She died unmarried April 6, 1878, in Elizabeth Union, New Jersey.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Home and Community Life: Textiles
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Edith Evelyn Currens
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: TE.T13212
label: catalog number
content: T13212.000
label: accession number
content: 254662
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Embroidery, Sampler
label: Object Name
content: sampler
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silk (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: linen (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 12 in x 8 1/4 in; 30.48 cm x 20.955 cm