Alcinda C. Timberlake's Sampler
date: label: Date made
content: 1817
name: label: maker
content: Timberlake, Alcinda C.
notes: label: Description
content: Three block alphabets of 26 letters. One script alphabet with no "J." Numbers to 12 and to 6. All these rows separated by simple geometric crossbands. One wide crossband, grapevine, worked in free embroidery, with brown guidelines under stitches. Silk embroidery thread on linen ground. STITCHES: cross, long-armed cross, rice, Algerian eye, queen, outline, stem, satin, gobelin. THREAD COUNT: warp 25, weft 26/in.<br>
label: Description
content: <B>Inscriptions:</B><br>
label: Description
content: "Do as you would be done by<br>
label: Description
content: Alcinda C: Timberlake, Char<br>-lestown Virginia 1817."<br>
label: Description
content: <B>Background:</B><br>
label: Description
content: Alcinda Timberlake was born about 1803 and married Harfield Timberlake, Jr. on June 18, 1822, in Charlestown, Virginia. Their son Henry Carter Timberlake, born in 1835, taught at Mississippi College. He married Alice Jordan and they named one of their girls Alcinda after his mother. This granddaughter donated her grandmother's sampler. West Virginia became a state in 1863, and Charlestown is now part of West Virginia.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: Place Made
content: United States: West Virginia, Charles Town
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 Alcinda Carter Timberlake
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: TE.T13497
label: catalog number
content: T13497
label: accession number
content: 254795
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: 17 in x 12 in; 43.18 cm x 30.48 cm