Table Mats

Name/Title

Table Mats

Entry/Object ID

1986.6.1-.4

Description

Four tablets. Hand-embroidered silk floss on white linen (three multicolored, one white on white). Three with handmade lace borders. One whitework. One embroidered with strawberry pattern. One embroidered with purple and pink flowers. One embroidered with wreath of green and pink flowers.

Made/Created

Date made

circa 1900 - circa 1910

Provenance

Notes

Made by Catherine Pauline Rudolph (Mrs. Joseph J. Greer); born 1886. Made while she was attended Eden Hall, Academy of the Sacred Heart in Torresdale. She was approximately 15 years of age at the time and lived on Diamond Street. After her marriage she lived on Lincoln Drive and later at 429 E. Mt. Pleasant Avenue.