Plate 19.

Samples of American darned laces. Collected by Miss Anna P. Thompson, daughter of Hezekiah Thompson and his wife, Mabel Roberts, of New Haven, Connecticut. Owned by Miss Esther H. Thompson, of Litchfield, Connecticut. Mabel Roberts was born in 1814. At nine years of age, in the winter while at school, she made the lace shown in Figure 2 of Plate 19 and in Figure 1 of Plate 20, worked a sampler, and made a ruffled shirt for her brother, who was eight years old. (See also Figure 5 of Plate 23 and description.)