Description:
Needlework marking sampler done in blue silk floss embroidery in blue cross stitch on a bleached linen ground, which has the initials, "MKG" (who may be Lydia's teacher) and the inscription, "Lydia Montague + 1786." Lydia Montague (1774-1851) was the youngest child of Daniel Montague (1725-1814) and Lydia Smith Montague (d.1805) of Sunderland who married in 1750. Lydia married Amos Daniels (1763-1851) of Sunderland in 1795, and they later moved to Conway, Massachusetts. The sampler has the numbers and the alphabet in upper case letters: The letters D, F, L, R, U, X, and Y are stitched once; the letters B, C, E, G, H, I, J, K, P, S, V, Z are repeated twice; the letters A, M, O, T are repeated three times; the letter W is repeated six times. The sampler has a darker blue zig-zag band long the bottom. The stitches learned in this sampler would have prepared Lydia for her domestic duties as a wife and mother, marking household linens, and sewing and mending clothing.
Subjects:
Textile fabrics; Linen; polychrome; Silk Link to share this object record:
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