Charlotte Draper's Sampler
date: label: date made
content: 1797
name: label: maker
content: Draper, Charlotte
notes: label: Description
content: This sampler by Charlotte Draper, dating to 1797, is stitched with silk embroidery thread on a linen ground with a thread count of warp 26, weft 28/ in. The stitches used are cross and rice. The inscription is: "Charlotte Dra / pers Sampler Wrote / In The 13 Year of her / Age June the 23 1797." Charlotte Draper was born on May 8, 1785 to Isaac (1736 – 1824) and Chloe Tingley (1746 – 1828) Draper in Attleboro, Massachusetts. She never married and died on August 22, 1848, in Thompson, Connecticut.
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 Mrs. Charlotte Ellis Danforth.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: TE.E300507
label: catalog number
content: E300507.000
label: accession number
content: 61510
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Embroidery, Sampler
label: Object Name
content: sampler
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: linen (overall ground)
label: Physical Description
content: silk and cotton (overall thread)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 12 1/4 in x 7 3/8 in; 31.115 cm x 18.7325 cm