Katharine Mayo's Sampler
date: label: Date made
content: 1773
name: label: maker
content: Mayo, Katherine
notes: label: Description
content: This sampler by Katherine Mayo of Roxbury, MA, dating to 1773, is stitched with silk embroidery thread on a linen ground with a thread count of warp 22, weft 26/ in. The stitches used are cross, crosslet, two-sided cross, marking cross, and Algerian eye. Katharine included the inscription: "KathaR / INE MAYO IS / MY NaME NEW / ENGLaND IS MY / NaTION ROXBVRY IS MY / DWELLING PLACE AND / ChriSt is MY SalVatION / When I aM Dead & MY BONES / are Rotin hear / YOV may see my name When I am ForgOtten Kat / harine MAYO her sample 1773." Katherine Mayo was born June 25, 1762, in Roxbury, Suffolk Co., Massachusetts to Thomas and Mary Heath Mayo. She died April 15, 1857.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Massachusetts, Boston, Roxbury
setName: label: See more items in
content: Home and Community Life: Textiles
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Arthur M. Greenwood
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: TE.E388923
label: catalog number
content: E388923.000
label: accession number
content: 182022
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Embroidery, Sampler
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: 10 1/8 in x 7 in; 25.7175 cm x 17.78 cm