Kit: Crewel Embroidery, Louise Chrimes, Petersham Craft Center

Object/Artifact

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Robert Darr Wert & Country Prints

Ad for Louise Chrimes crewel embroidery kits for the Petersham Craft Center, Petersham, New Hampshire.: Yankee Magazine, 1961. Image: Margaret M. Geary
Ad for Louise Chrimes crewel embroidery kits for the Petersham Craft Center, Petersham, New Hampshire.

Yankee Magazine, 1961. Image: Margaret M. Geary

Name/Title

Kit: Crewel Embroidery, Louise Chrimes, Petersham Craft Center

Description

Ad for Louise Chrimes’ crewel embroidery kits for the Petersham Craft Center, Petersham, New Hampshire. Robert Darr Wert and Country Prints provided the silkscreen printed pattern for the embroidery kits. Information and Yankee Magazine ad image provided by Margaret M. Geary. The Tree of Life pattern from the embroidery kit matches the chair cushion back of a Country Prints cut-and-sew kit from the same period; see images. According to Ms. Geary, Country Prints’ Crewel 263 towel/wallhanging is “recognizably a Louise Chrimes pattern”; see images.

Made/Created

Artist Information

Artist

Louise Chrimes

Role

Artist

Manufacturer

Country Prints, Louise Chrimes

Date made

1961

Time Period

20th Century

Place

* Untyped Place

Petersham, New Hampshire