Name/Title
CoverEntry/Object ID
2000.10.67LDescription
Cover of silk, silk floss, gold floss; long rectangle made of four strips of embroidery, each approximately three inches wide. The outer two of these are border. Pattern is matched. Embroidery design suggests dragons and clouds. Background is shiny gold, embroidery in blues, greens, apricot, cream. Small squares of another fabric- two near each end and border. A fabric strip is sewn at one corner and another two thirds of the length down. On back: "Steel Anglefield South Godstone."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."