Object Details
- Arndt, Margaret
- Description
- At bottom of the sampler is an unfinished two-story house with two baskets and an urn of flowers, on a ground of straight stitches shaded like Florentine patterns. Margaret Arndt stitched a common proverb that reflected the importance at that time of one’s salvation in Christ. The inscription reads:
“The LOSE of a FaThEr IS MUSh
BUT The LOZE OF a MOTher IS MOOR
BUT the LOSE OF ChrIST IS SUCh
AS NONe CAN RE STOre
DONe IN MY AELEVe
Nth YeAr OF my
Age the YeAr OF
OUR LOrd ONe ThOUSaNd 1815
Margaret Arndt”- The sampler is stitched with silk and cotton embroidery thread on a linen ground with a thread count of warp 27, weft 29/in. The stitches used are cross, chain, Algerian eye, satin, stem, outline, buttonhole, straight, crosslet, slanted gobelin, and hem.
- Margaret Arndt, born ca. 1804 in Pennsylvania, married on June 11, 1833, as the second wife of Henry DeHuff (1794 - 1854). They had six children - Catherine (c.1834-), Jacob A. (c.1836-), Abraham (c.1838-), Anna (1840-), Susannah (c.1845-), and John (c.1848-).
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of Margaret Lee Gaver
- 1815
- ID Number
- TE.T16418
- catalog number
- T16418
- accession number
- 304266
- Object Name
- embroidery, sampler
- sampler
- Physical Description
- linen (ground material)
- cotton (embroidery thread material)
- silk (embroidery thread material)
- Measurements
- overall: 13 in x 11 1/2 in; 33.02 cm x 29.21 cm
- place made
- United States: Pennsylvania
- See more items in
- Home and Community Life: Textiles
- Samplers
- Textiles
- National Museum of American History
- Record ID
- nmah_639603
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746b3-3e31-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
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