Susanna Goodale's Sampler
notes: label: Description
content: This sampler by Susanna Goodale, is stitched with linen embroidery thread on a cotton ground with a thread count of warp 42, weft 36/ in. The stitches used are cross and tent. It is unusual to see the word “performed” on a sampler, mostly it is “wrought by.” The inscription is: “Performed by Susanna / Goodale Thetford August 5th.” Thetford is in Vermont.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Home and Community Life: Textiles
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Dr. and Mrs. Arthur M. Greenwood
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: TE.E388922
label: catalog number
content: E388922.000
label: accession number
content: 182022
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Embroidery, Sampler
label: Object Name
content: sampler
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: cotton (overall ground)
label: Physical Description
content: linen (overall thread)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 8 7/8 in x 8 3/8 in; 22.5425 cm x 21.2725 cm