Mary P. Stabler's Sampler
date: label: date made
content: 1819-1821
name: label: maker
content: Stabler, Mary P.
notes: label: Description
content: This sampler features six block alphabets: five of 26 letters and one double. All the rows are separated by simple geometric crossbands. Mary Stabler’s sampler is an example of a marking sampler that consisted predominately of alphabets and numbers, and was usually the first sampler a young lady stitched. Alphabets were used to mark linens for identification. Mary included the inscription:
label: Description
content: <br>“Mary P Stabler’s<br>Work<br>Aged 11 Alexandria”<br>
label: Description
content: The sampler is stitched with silk and cotton embroidery thread on a linen ground with a thread count of warp 28, weft 29/in. The stitches used are: cross, crosslet, four-sided, double cross, rice, Algerian eye, queen, and herringbone.
label: Description
content: Mary Pleasants Stabler was born on January 30, 1809, to Edward and Mary Hartshorne Stabler in Alexandria, Virginia. In 1835 she married John Leadbeater and they had eight children - Edward S., Lucy, Mary G., Alice, Anna, Alice, William, and Thomas. Mary died on August 9, 1863. See her daughter Anna Leadbeater’s samplers.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Virginia, Alexandria
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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 Mrs. Clarence Milton Yohn
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: TE.T12610
label: catalog number
content: T12610
label: accession number
content: 235642
objectType: label: Object Name
content: embroidery, sampler
label: Object Name
content: sampler
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: linen (ground material)
label: Physical Description
content: silk (embroidery thread material)
label: Physical Description
content: cotton (embroidery thread material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 17 in x 12 1/4 in; 43.18 cm x 31.115 cm