Embroidered sampler

Embroidered sampler

Betsy P. Cross

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Samplers like this one, that have a ground fabric, usually green in color, woven with a linen warp and a woolen weft (commonly called linsey-woolsey), most often originated in Essex County, Massachusetts, or in southeastern New Hampshire.

The American Wing

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

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The American Wing's ever-evolving collection comprises some 20,000 works of art by African American, Euro American, Latin American, and Native American men and women. Ranging from the colonial to early-modern periods, the holdings include painting, sculpture, works on paper, and decorative arts—including furniture, textiles, ceramics, glass, silver, metalwork, jewelry, basketry, quill and bead embroidery—as well as historical interiors and architectural fragments.