silk embroidery on linen foundation | Media | Collection of Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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Bands of alphabets and numerals separated by narrow geometric cross borders, a verse and inscription, in colored silks on tan linen.
The verse reads:
When youths soft season shall be oer
And scenes of childhood charm no more
My riper years with joy shall see
This proof of early industry

Sampler (USA), early 19th century
silk embroidery on linen foundation.
Gift of Mary S. M. Gibson.
1945-54-18

This object is part of the Textiles collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

The field is divided in three sections: bands of alphabets and numerals at the top, a verse and inscription in the middle, and an incomplete basket of flowers at the bottom. With stylized floral and strawberry vine borders on four sides.

Sampler (USA), 1816
silk embroidery on linen foundation.
Gift of Mary S. M. Gibson.
1945-54-17

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There are 2 images of this object.

Wide border with design of birds on uprights stems bearing flowers and leaves, fish with scrolls; narrow border with mermaids holding tails, birds flowers and scrolls.

Band (Greece), 18th century
silk embroidery on linen foundation.
Museum purchase through gift of George A. Hearn.
1943-19-5

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There are 3 images of this object.

Narrow border with mermaids and scrolls ending in carnations and scrolls enclosing double-headed eagles. Wide border with floral sprays above an anchor, birds on plant growing out of a basket.

Band (Greece), 18th century
silk embroidery on linen foundation.
Museum purchase through gift of George A. Hearn.
1943-19-4

This object is part of the Textiles collection.
There are 3 images of this object.

Embroidery in formalized design of interlacements, leaves and carnations with narrow borders of carnations.

Band (Greece), 19th century
silk embroidery on linen foundation.
Museum purchase through gift of George A. Hearn.
1943-19-3

This object is part of the Textiles collection.
There are 3 images of this object.

Cross borders in floral and geometric patterns at the top and below; alphabets, numerals, and date in wreath; Pascal Lamb, Crucifixion with inscriptions, animals, birds and flowers.

Sampler (Germany), 1740
silk embroidery on linen foundation.
Bequest of Mrs. Henry E. Coe.
1941-69-99

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There are 3 images of this object.

Floral borders surrounding the alphabet and initials "F. D. M. L."; scenes showing a woman in a gate with vases of flowers, a bird, and a wreath with the initial "B".

Sampler (Italy), 19th century
silk embroidery on linen foundation.
Bequest of Mrs. Henry E. Coe.
1941-69-9

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There are 2 images of this object.

The center field contains an alphabet, a verse, trees and a large house. With a wide floral border on three sides, and an inscription at the bottom.
The verse reads:
Time has Wings and swiftly flies
Youth and beauty fade away
Virtue is the only prize
Whose sacred joys will ne'er decay

Inscribed: Betsy Adams work wrought in the ninth year of her age

Sampler (USA), 1805
silk embroidery on linen foundation.
Bequest of Mrs. Henry E. Coe.
1941-69-86

This object is part of the Textiles collection.

Within an octagonal framework are bands of alphabets and numerals, a verse and inscription, floral cross borders and a landscape showing three buildings with trees and sheep. With roses in the spandrels.
The verse reads:
The loss of a father is great. The loss of a mother is more. The loss of Christ is such a loss that no man can restore.
Inscribed: Wrought by Susan S Bagnell aged 8 Plymouth AD 1827

Sampler (USA), 1827
silk embroidery on linen foundation.
Bequest of Mrs. Henry E. Coe.
1941-69-75

This object is part of the Textiles collection.

Embroidered sampler with bands of alphabets and numerals, floral and geometric borders, and an inscription.
At the bottom are two trees, one surrounded by birds, the other with birds flying away from it; the trees are identified as 'The Good Tree' and 'The Evil Tree'.
The verse reads:
Let Virtue be a Guide to Me
When this you see Remember Me

Sampler (USA), 1787
silk embroidery on linen foundation.
Bequest of Mrs. Henry E. Coe.
1941-69-74

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There are 3 images of this object.

A wide floral border with a dark blue ground divides the sampler in two. Above, alphabets, numerals and an inscription:

Mary Green Her Sampler Made in the Eleventh Year of Her Age 1766

Below, a verse:

Beauty and Pride We Often Find
Betrays the weakness of the Mind
He hansom [sic] is and merist prais [sic]
That Handsom dos the proverb Says

The loss of a father is great
But the loss of a Mother is more
But the loss of Christ is such a loss
As no man can restore.

Surrounded on four sides by a stylized strawberry vine border.

Sampler (USA), 1766
silk embroidery on linen foundation.
Bequest of Mrs. Henry E. Coe.
1941-69-73

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There are 2 images of this object.

An arched framework with an incomplete family register. The top of the arch reads Keep Sacred the Memory Of. The field within the arch is divided in three registers: the top, titled Ancestors, gives the birth and marriage dates of David Kelly and Amy Comstock; the middle register includes a tree with the names and dates of their children; and the lower register has a verse within a leafy border:

Religion
Beyond the narrow vale of time
Where bright celestial ages roll
To scenes eternal scenes sublime
She points the way and leads the soul

Followed by the inscription. A border of roses in an octagon framework terminating with rose sprays at upper corners gives the effect of a trellis.

Family Register Sampler (USA), 1830
silk embroidery on linen foundation.
Bequest of Mrs. Henry E. Coe.
1941-69-70

This object is part of the Textiles collection.

Large vase of flowers with verse above and inscription below, surrounded on three sides with a border of roses set in octagonal frames. The verse reads:

The maid who led by wisdom's guiding hand
Seek's virtue's temple and her law reveres
She She alone in honours dome shall stand
Crownd with Rewards and rais'd above her peers
Re cording annals shall preserve her name
And give her virtues immortal fame

And the inscription:
Done by Harriet Bradbury August 17 1786

Sampler (USA), 1786
silk embroidery on linen foundation.
Bequest of Mrs. Henry E. Coe.
1941-69-67

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There are 2 images of this object.

Picture format, with a large brick house and white picket fence, flanked by a weeping willow and another large tree, with trees also behind the house. Surrounded by a wide floral border. Inscription at the bottom.

Sampler (USA), 1824
silk embroidery on linen foundation.
Bequest of Mrs. Henry E. Coe.
1941-69-65

This object is part of the Textiles collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

Spot motifs, including a large bouquet of flowers tied with a ribbon at center, surrounded by two houses, flowers, a butterfly, a crown, and a teapot. On four sides, a stylized strawberry vine border. A verse appears at the top:

First SPRING advancing with her flowry train
Here SUMMERS hand that spreads the sylvan scene
Then AUTUMN with her yellow harvests crownd
And trembling WINTER close the annual round

Charlot Chadwick 1798

Sampler (USA), 1798
silk embroidery on linen foundation.
Bequest of Mrs. Henry E. Coe.
1941-69-57

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There are 2 images of this object.

A verse and inscription with a church below are flanked by motifs symmetrically arranged: fruit trees, roses, urns with flowering plants. Surrounded on four sides with a delicate strawberry vine border.
The verse reads:
Could we with Ink the Ocean fill
Were the whole earth of parchment made
Were every single stick a Quill
And every man a scribe by trade
To write the Love of GOD above
Would drain the Ocean dry
Nor could this Scroll contain the whole
Tho stretcht from sky to sky
Where the whole realm of nature mine
That were a present far too small
Love so amazing so divine
Demands my sould my life my all

Sampler (USA), 1828
silk embroidery on linen foundation.
Bequest of Mrs. Henry E. Coe.
1941-69-55

This object is part of the Textiles collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

A grassy promenade in front of a large building, with domestic animals and a man and woman in the foreground. The promenade is flanked by rows of trees. The spaces are filled with birds, flowering plants, and verses. In the upper left and right corners, pairs of angels hold wreaths encircling the initials E and T. Surrounded on four sides by a carnation border.

The verse reads:
God counts the sorrows of his saints
Their groans affect his ears
He has a book for their complaints
A bottle for their tears

Sampler (USA), 1810
silk embroidery on linen foundation.
Bequest of Mrs. Henry E. Coe.
1941-69-53

This object is part of the Textiles collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

Several bands of alphabets and numerals separated by geometric and floral cross borders, with a verse and inscription:
God give me grace i ask no more
Contentment is a constant store
Ann Thornton Aged nine Years Anno Domini 1798

In the lower half, a landscape showing trees growing out of mounds with animals, birds, insects, and baskets of flowers. With an angular strawberry vine border.

Sampler (USA), 1798
silk embroidery on linen foundation.
Bequest of Mrs. Henry E. Coe.
1941-69-52

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There are 3 images of this object.

An verse embroidered in black and enclosed in a black octagonal frame, surrounded by a deep border of flowering vines tied with a ribbon, embroidered in pale greens and browns.
The verse reads:
Acrostic
Amidst my learning and my care
Nothing can equal God most dear
Nor ought with him my heart to share
Quick as my fingers move this thread
Under just rules do act with speed
In wisdom paths still may I tread
Giving to virtue constant heed
Love to be good and therefore wise
Youth finds in these the greatest prize

Sampler (USA), 1814
silk embroidery on linen foundation.
Bequest of Mrs. Henry E. Coe.
1941-69-51

This object is part of the Textiles collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

In the upper half, a record of the births of members of the Sacket family: Stephen Sacket born May 23 1752. Eunice Lovering born Dec. 23 1748. Married Nov. 25 1776. Steph'n Sacket Jr. born Aug 7 1777. Eunice Sacket born April 25 1779. Hannah Sacket born Aug 7 1781. Sally Sacket born April 21 1786. Daniel Sact. born Sept 23 1790.

Followed by a verse:
In prosperity friends are plenty
In adversity not one in twenty

With scattered floral motifs and the initials SS in the lower half, and a floral border on three sides. The black background is embroidered on natural colored cloth.

Sampler (USA), ca. 1796
silk embroidery on linen foundation.
Bequest of Mrs. Henry E. Coe.
1941-69-46

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Alphabets, highly stylized floral elements, and an inscription embroidered in colored silks on a white linen ground. Surrounded by a chain link border with four-leaf clovers and spades in the corners.
The inscription reads:
Elizabeth Ann Herrin Andrews 6 years 10 days October the 17th Anno Domini 1755

Sampler (USA), 1755
silk embroidery on linen foundation.
Bequest of Mrs. Henry E. Coe.
1941-69-44

This object is part of the Textiles collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

In the center is a double-headed eagle surrounded by flowers and an inscription. Four wide borders of geometric forms and lions (?) and five narrow borders.

Sampler (Spain), 1826
silk embroidery on linen foundation.
Bequest of Mrs. Henry E. Coe.
1941-69-42

This object is part of the Textiles collection.
There are 3 images of this object.

Embroidered sampler with several bands of alphabets and numerals separated by narrow geometric borders, and an inscription.
In the lower half, a verse in two columns and a view of Crawford, New Hampshire; all within a stylized floral border. Embroidered in colored silks on a white linen ground.

The verse reads:
THE YOUNG AND GIDDY Invited to Christ
Young sinners to counsel give ear
From Juvenile levity cease
The god of omnipotence fear
The fountain of wisdom and peace
The gospel illumines the way
To climes of extatic [sic] delight
Where storms never ruffle the day
And where it will never be night

Your pleasures are empty and vain
And can but a moment endure
They yield by confusion and pain
The soul to destruction allure
Why slight ye the Saviour o say
To save you he yielded his breath
The tempests of life he can lay
And cheer the lone valley of death

Sampler (USA), 1833
silk embroidery on linen foundation.
Bequest of Mrs. Henry E. Coe.
1941-69-4

This object is part of the Textiles collection.

Male and female figures, trees, birds, and urns of flowers are symmetrically arranged on either side of a large house, with grass and domestic animals in front. A deep yellow rose border surrounds the sampler on three sides. In the upper half, a box framed by a smaller floral vine border contains a verse and inscription.
The verse reads:
Jesus permit thy gracious name to stand
As the first efforts of a youthful hand
And while my fingers on the canvass move
Engage my tender heart to see thy love
With thy dear children let me have a part
And write thy name thyself upon my heart

Sampler (USA), 1827
silk embroidery on linen foundation.
Bequest of Mrs. Henry E. Coe.
1941-69-33

This object is part of the Textiles collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

Fifteen cross borders in geometric and floral patterns and below, in a panel, the initials "S A S" and date "1685" in a wreath, floral ornament, crowns and alphabet.

Sampler (Germany), 1685
silk embroidery on linen foundation.
Bequest of Mrs. Henry E. Coe.
1941-69-256

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There are 3 images of this object.

Central panel with name, alphabet and numerals in cross stitch; surrounded by borders in drawnwork of geometric patterns. Birds and lamb in each corner and a flower motif worked in satin stitch.

Sampler (Mexico), 18th century
silk embroidery on linen foundation.
Bequest of Mrs. Henry E. Coe.
1941-69-252

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There are 2 images of this object.

Alphabets, numerals, birds, plants, people all surrounded by a border of scrolls. Bound with pink silk ribbon.

Sampler (Italy), ca. 1815
silk embroidery on linen foundation.
Bequest of Mrs. Henry E. Coe.
1941-69-248

This object is part of the Textiles collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

The field has scattered motifs including house, a peacock, urns of flowers, birds, and Adam and Eve with the Tree of Knowledge. Surrounded on three sides with a geometric border and on all four with a strawberry vine border. With the date 1789 at the top and the inscription Abigail Adams her work New York at the bottom.

Sampler (USA), 1789
silk embroidery on linen foundation.
Bequest of Mrs. Henry E. Coe.
1941-69-243

This object is part of the Textiles collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

Map of England and Wales with surrounding waters on which are ships with sailors.

Map Sampler (England), 1797
silk embroidery on linen foundation.
Bequest of Mrs. Henry E. Coe.
1941-69-24

This object is part of the Textiles collection.

Sampler with a single alphabet at the top, and dominated by a very stylized basket of flowers. With the date 1821, the initials CL, and the name Sarah Lands.

Sampler (USA), 1821
silk embroidery on linen foundation.
Bequest of Mrs. Henry E. Coe.
1941-69-237

This object is part of the Textiles collection.

Cross borders containing geometric and floral patterns, alphabets, numerals; in panel are two medallions with initials "MDF" and "ISG" and the date "1757." Also features Crucifixion, Pascal Lamb, St. George and the Dragon and various animals.

Sampler (Germany), 1757
silk embroidery on linen foundation.
Bequest of Mrs. Henry E. Coe.
1941-69-230

This object is part of the Textiles collection.
There are 3 images of this object.

An unfinished sampler with three alphabets, numerals, and an incomplete verse, with a wide floral border on three sides. Embroidered in colored silks on a white ground; the colors have run.
The verse reads:
There is a world where souls are free
Where tyrants taint not natures bliss

Sampler (USA), 19th century
silk embroidery on linen foundation.
Bequest of Mrs. Henry E. Coe.
1941-69-23

This object is part of the Textiles collection.

Scene showing a house flanked by two trees, a garden with a fence, a dog, birds and butterflies. Surrounded by a rose border and inscription.

Sampler (USA), 1816
silk embroidery on linen foundation.
Bequest of Mrs. Henry E. Coe.
1941-69-225

This object is part of the Textiles collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

Detached motifs in a central square with radiating borders.

Sampler (Spain), 1809
silk embroidery on linen foundation.
Bequest of Mrs. Henry E. Coe.
1941-69-211

This object is part of the Textiles collection.
There are 3 images of this object.

Unfinished horizontal sampler embroidered in vivid colors. The lower half is predominantly bands of flame and geometric patterns. The upper half has some small-scale floral borders and an unfinished bird on a nest.

Sampler (Mexico), 18th century
silk embroidery on linen foundation.
Bequest of Mrs. Henry E. Coe.
1941-69-200

This object is part of the Textiles collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

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