Katharine Mayo's Sampler
Katharine Mayo's Sampler
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- Description
- 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.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- Embroidery, Sampler
- sampler
- Date made
- 1773
- maker
- Mayo, Katherine
- place made
- United States: Massachusetts, Boston, Roxbury
- Physical Description
- linen (ground fabric material)
- silk (embroidery thread material)
- Measurements
- overall: 10 1/8 in x 7 in; 25.7175 cm x 17.78 cm
- ID Number
- TE.E388923
- catalog number
- E388923.000
- accession number
- 182022
- Credit Line
- Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Arthur M. Greenwood
- See more items in
- Cultural and Community Life: Textiles
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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