Object Number: Na181

Collection: Applied Art

Object Name: sampler: pattern for garment

Description: Pattern for an infant's bodice: under-arm seams tacked, neck edged with pink paper simulating broderie anglaise. Exhibition label for Na173-182: These samplers show Martha's progression from Stage III to Stage VII; her first effort at Stage VI was considered inadequate and had to be repeated. The cutting of paper patterns was included in the sewing curriculum. The process shown in the samplers include seaming (run-and-fell, sew-and-fell), darning, attaching a tape, patching, gathering, making a cuff, working a buttonhole, making a covered button, marking, darning, knitting and turning a heel.