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Title
Lydia Dickman's Sampler
Subject
Lydia Dickman's Sampler, made in Boston, Massachusetts.
Description
Two block alphabets with no "J" or "U" with each letter in alphabets and each word in inscription different color. Ten narrow decorative crossbands, three wide crossbands, and narrow geometric crossbands separating these and lettered rows; last crossband has row of strawberry(?) motifs against background solidly filled with cross stitches and first nine letters of lower-case alphabet. All four edges hemstitched with yellow silk thread. Stitches: cross, two-sided cross, eyelet, marking cross, gobelin, satin, tent, hem.
Creator
Lydia Dickman
Source
https://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/search/object/nmah_650036
Publisher
National Museum of American History
Date
1735