Amish sampler with lettering and motifs
Barbara Beiler
early 19th century · Silk and linen embroidery on linen · The American Wing
This classic example of a Pennsylvania German sampler was made by an Amish girl. Samplers that show many motifs—this one displays seventy-three—were used primarily to record and practice designs and alphabets that were later referred to when initialing and decorating household textiles.
- Artist
- Barbara Beiler
- Date
- early 19th century
- Medium
- Silk and linen embroidery on linen
- Culture
- American
- Department
- The American Wing
- Credit line
- Gift of Mrs. Robert W. de Forest, 1933
