Sarah Bailiff's Sampler
date: label: Date made
content: 1839
name: label: maker
content: Bailiff, Sarah
notes: label: Description
content: Four block alphabets of 26 letters. One script alphabet to "P"; no "J." Numbers to 4. Each row worked in one color, and all rows separated by simple geometric crossbands. Two strawberry plants to right of verse. No border. Silk embroidery thread on linen ground. STITCHES: cross, Algerian eye, four-sided, upright gobelin, satin, stem, hem. THREAD COUNT: warp 26, weft 28/in.<br>
label: Description
content: <B>Inscriptions:</B><br>
label: Description
content: "Now mark the Sequel May Your mind<br>In wiSdomS waYS true PleaSure find<br>Grow StronG in virtu rich in truth<br>And Year bY Year renew itS youth<br>Till in the late triumphant hoUr<br>The SPirit Shall the fleSh overPoWer<br>ThiS from itS SUfferinGS Gain releaSe<br>And that taKe WinG and Part in PeaCe<br>
label: Description
content: Sarah BaILIff'S SamPler done Nov 27 1839"<br>
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content: <B>Background:</B><br>
label: Description
content: Sarah Bailiff gave her sampler to a member of Justice Alfred Moore's family at Moorefields, North Carolina, their summer home. It descended in that family until it was given to the Smithsonian. Sarah Bailiff's date of birth has not yet been identified.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: Place Made
content: World
topic: label: depicted
content: Alphabets
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content: Home and Community Life: Textiles
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content: Samplers
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content: Textiles
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Miss Rebecca Waddell Cushman
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: TE.T12722
label: catalog number
content: T12722
label: accession number
content: 238996
objectType: label: Object Name
content: sampler
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: linen (ground fabric material)
label: Physical Description
content: silk (embroidery thread material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 18 1/8 in x 16 1/2 in; 46.0375 cm x 41.91 cm