Object Details
- Stabler, Mary P.
- Description
- This sampler features six block alphabets: five of 26 letters and one double. All the rows are separated by simple geometric crossbands. Mary Stabler’s sampler is an example of a marking sampler that consisted predominately of alphabets and numbers, and was usually the first sampler a young lady stitched. Alphabets were used to mark linens for identification. Mary included the inscription:
“Mary P Stabler’s
Work
Aged 11 Alexandria”- The sampler is stitched with silk and cotton embroidery thread on a linen ground with a thread count of warp 28, weft 29/in. The stitches used are: cross, crosslet, four-sided, double cross, rice, Algerian eye, queen, and herringbone.
- Mary Pleasants Stabler was born on January 30, 1809, to Edward and Mary Hartshorne Stabler in Alexandria, Virginia. In 1835 she married John Leadbeater and they had eight children - Edward S., Lucy, Mary G., Alice, Anna, Alice, William, and Thomas. Mary died on August 9, 1863. See her daughter Anna Leadbeater’s samplers.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of Mrs. Clarence Milton Yohn
- 1819-1821
- ID Number
- TE.T12610
- catalog number
- T12610
- accession number
- 235642
- Object Name
- embroidery, sampler
- sampler
- Physical Description
- linen (ground material)
- silk (embroidery thread material)
- cotton (embroidery thread material)
- Measurements
- overall: 17 in x 12 1/4 in; 43.18 cm x 31.115 cm
- place made
- United States: Virginia, Alexandria
- See more items in
- Home and Community Life: Textiles
- Samplers
- Textiles
- National Museum of American History
- Record ID
- nmah_639745
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a4-ab52-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
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