Postrema was clearly working within the 18th century samplermaking traditions of Philadelphia and New Jersey. The motifs that she featured include a leaping stag, castle-like building, paired birds, yellow swans, baskets of fruit, butterflies, stalks of blue bells and a lustrous green lawn and borders formed of double lines with finely worked flowers, buds and berries. A four-line verse reads, "Let joy and Worship spend / The remnants of my days / And to my God my soul ascend / In sweet perfumes of Praise," and the inscription is contained by a leafy cartouche, again a regional characteristic.

Worked in silk on linen, the sampler is in excellent condition. It has been conservation mounted and is in a 19th century maple frame.