Alcinda C. Timberlake's Sampler

Description:

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.

Inscriptions:

"Do as you would be done by

Alcinda C: Timberlake, Char
-lestown Virginia 1817."

Background:

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.

Date Made: 1817

Maker: Timberlake, Alcinda C.

Location: Currently not on view

Place Made: United States: West Virginia, Charles Town

Depicted: Alphabets

Subject:

See more items in: Home and Community Life: Textiles, Samplers, Textiles

Exhibition:

Exhibition Location:

Credit Line: Gift of Miss Alcinda Carter Timberlake

Data Source: National Museum of American History

Id Number: TE.T13497Catalog Number: T13497Accession Number: 254795

Object Name: sampler

Physical Description: linen (ground fabric material)silk (embroidery thread material)Measurements: overall: 17 in x 12 in; 43.18 cm x 30.48 cm

Guid: http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a4-aea8-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa

Record Id: nmah_639744

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