Julia Winona Lacey's Sampler
date: label: date made
content: 1848
name: label: maker
content: Lacey, Julia Winona
notes: label: Description
content: This sampler features two block alphabets of 26 letters, with numbers to 4. The letters and numbers are all stitched at random in different colors, and all the rows are separated by simple geometric crossbands. Julia was only learning the basics needed for plain sewing by making a sampler with just alphabets and numbers. On the bottom she included the inscription:
label: Description
content: <br>“Julia Lacey St Vince Sch”>br>
label: Description
content: Julia worked her sampler while attending St. Vincent’s school for orphans in Washington, D.C. The sampler is stitched with wool embroidery thread on a cotton canvas ground with a thread count of warp 23, weft 26/in. The stitches used are cross, and crosslet.
label: Description
content: Julia Winona Lacey was born in Washington, D.C., in 1840 and married Almanza Layton, who was born on June 1837. They had four children - Esther (c.1860-), Fanny (1862-), Florence (1864-), and Catherine (c.1865-). Julia died in 1874.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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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 Florence W. Layton
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: TE.T08869
label: catalog number
content: T8869
label: accession number
content: 164049
objectType: label: Object Name
content: embroidery, sampler
label: Object Name
content: sampler
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: cotton (canvas ground material)
label: Physical Description
content: wool (thread material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 7 1/4 in x 7 1/4 in; 18.415 cm x 18.415 cm