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Title
Rebekah White's Sampler
Subject
Rebekah White's Sampler, made in Massachusetts
Description
The pastoral courting scene embroidered beneath the lettering on this sampler relates to the more formal tent-stitch needlework pictures created by Boston girls during this decade. Salem samplers are characterized by long filling stitches made from untwisted silk floss. This early sampler is one of a small group made in the school of an unknown teacher who may have introduced this technique, which remained popular in Salem into the nineteenth century.
Creator
Rebekah White
Source
https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/1984.331.8/
Publisher
The MET Museum
Date
1766, 1984
Contributor
Barbara Schiff Sinauer