Name/Title
CoverEntry/Object ID
2000.10.79Description
Cover made of silk, silk floss, with linen backing. Yellow-green/ pale-olive background embroidered in a design repeated over entire piece. Floral/ leaf design with flowers in blue/ white, pale peach, amber. Bordered in a beige braid. Linen backing is made of several pieces. China? On tag on border: "SB Steel."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."