Collar

Object/Artifact

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Historic Germantown

Name/Title

Collar

Entry/Object ID

2000.10.67E

Description

Linen, cotton embroidery floss, metallic floss collar; long rectangle with border on three sides. Three large images are embroidered on it, with smaller images between them and along the top, where there is no border. Greens, peach, ecru, pale blue are accented by some metallic threads. Middle East??

Dimensions

Height

3-3/4 in

Width

14-7/8 in

Material

Linen, Cotton

Provenance

Notes

See Sophie Steel textiles. Donor Anson Peckham was nephew of Sophie Steel. Steel (1870-1958) was born in Bethlehem, PA but grew up in Germantown. She later lived in England and France and was a student of Howard Pyle. She illustrated "Historic Dress in America."