White Work Embroidery
date: label: date made
content: 1866
notes: label: Description
content: An unfinished piece of French or white work embroidery. Embroidered in cotton on double thickness of linen fabric showing the pattern stamped in blue and partly worked, in eyelet, satin, and buttonhole stitches by a young soldier at Jefferson Barracks, Missouri. The date “August 21st, 1866” is penciled on the wrong side. The eyelet stitches require first a hole to be made in the fabric and then satin stitches completely cover the edge of the opening. This piece shows the progression of a work, with the excess fabric cut away after the buttonhole stitches were finished along the edge.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Missouri, Jefferson Barracks
label: made at
content: United States
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content: Home and Community Life: Textiles
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content: Victorian Needlework
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content: Textiles
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Mrs. Clarence J. Robinson
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: TE.T9135
label: catalog number
content: T9135
label: accession number
content: 170225
label: catalog number
content: T-9135
objectType: label: Object Name
content: embroidery, white work, unfinished
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: cotton (embroidery; lining material)
label: Physical Description
content: linen (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 11 in x 10 in; 27.94 cm x 25.4 cm