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Region: Middle Tennessee
1840 Emaline (Emma) Tennessee L. Motheral
Tulip Border Group
Grassland, Williamson Co.
16"V x 141⁄2"H
© TSS 012
fibers: silk
ground: 30 V/24 H ct. linen
fibers: silk
ground: 30 V/24 H ct. linen
Biography:
Emaline (Emma) Tennessee L. Motheral (1825-1898) grew up at Locust Guard, the Joseph Motheral farm. An avid student, she became a teacher and married Hiram Eleazer Ring, who was also a teacher.
Description:
Emma’s sampler has a great variety of stitches with extensive use of queen stitch, eyelet, and four-sided stitch. Her couplet,
Count that day lost, whose low descending sun
Views from thy hand, no worthy action done.
can be found on several Middle Tennessee samplers.
Count that day lost, whose low descending sun
Views from thy hand, no worthy action done.
can be found on several Middle Tennessee samplers.
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