Name/Title
SamplerEntry/Object ID
2000.10.67GDescription
Net embroidered in cotton, backed by cotton. A lace sampler with 37 patterns embroidered on it, almost all different. Off white. Backing is now beige. Very delicate work. Designs are mostly not representational; are abstract. May have been made by Sophie Steel. Cardboard strip sewn to the fabric reads "S.B. Steel."Dimensions
Height
6-1/8 inWidth
15-3/8 inProvenance
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."