Footstool

Description

Production sewing stool with white pine top, maple cleats, and turned maple legs and stretchers. Stool is stained brown and clear coated. Shape like a pinwheel or four-petal flower scratch-carved into center of top, rather crudely.

Notes

This type of footstool, sometimes known as a "cricket," raised the user's knees to facilitate handwork such as sewing, so they are also referred to as sewing stools. A copper printing plate (2006.3.4) in the museum's collection shows the stool as it was pictured in the Shaker sale catalog.