Charlotte Draper's Sampler
Charlotte Draper's Sampler
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- Description
- This sampler by Charlotte Draper, dating to 1797, is stitched with silk embroidery thread on a linen ground with a thread count of warp 26, weft 28/ in. The stitches used are cross and rice. The inscription is: "Charlotte Dra / pers Sampler Wrote / In The 13 Year of her / Age June the 23 1797." Charlotte Draper was born on May 8, 1785 to Isaac (1736 – 1824) and Chloe Tingley (1746 – 1828) Draper in Attleboro, Massachusetts. She never married and died on August 22, 1848, in Thompson, Connecticut.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- Embroidery, Sampler
- sampler
- date made
- 1797
- maker
- Draper, Charlotte
- Physical Description
- linen (overall ground)
- silk and cotton (overall thread)
- Measurements
- overall: 12 1/4 in x 7 3/8 in; 31.115 cm x 18.7325 cm
- ID Number
- TE.E300507
- catalog number
- E300507.000
- accession number
- 61510
- Credit Line
- Gift of Mrs. Charlotte Ellis Danforth.
- See more items in
- Cultural and Community Life: Textiles
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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