- Maker
- Tompkins, Martha Tabb
- Date made
- 1818
- Origin
- Warrenton, NC US
- Stitches
- Cross, Couching, Double cross, Four-sided.
- In Bolton & Co.
- No
- Foundation Cloth
- Linen
- Embroidery Thread
- Silk
- Predominent Motif
- 2 alphabets: upper and lowercase, verse and signature line all done in a undulating square cartouche decorated with floral sprigs. Four cross bands and an outer triple row border all four sides.
- Inscription
- In other men, we faults can spy. / And blame the mate that dims their eye. / Each Little speck and blemish find, / To our own stronger errors blind / Martha Tabb Tompkins / Warrenton October the 30th / 1818
- Length Without Frame
- 13 1/2"
- Width Without Frame
- 13 3/4"
- Historical Owner
- #2007-48,1 Funded by the Friends of Colonial Williamsburg Collections.
- Owner
- Museums of Colonial Williamsburg, Williamsburg, VA
- Owner Private
- Colonial Williamsburg
- Name of School
- Warrenton Female Academy, Warrenton, NC
