Wooden netting frame with partially finished piece; 1933-1935
date: label: date made
content: 1933 - 1943
name: label: maker
content: Strange, Marjorie B.
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Wooden frame holding partially embroidered netting. Needle still inserted in the netting. Owned and worked by the donor's mother, Marjorie, during her days at "finishing school" in Lausanne, Switzerland, or Paris, France, between 1933 and 1935. The girl's names inscribed on the frame may be the names of Marjorie's classmates at the school. Needlework has in many time periods been considered an important female skill, even among the well-to-do, not necessarily for utilitarian purposes but to help fill leisure time as a ladylike pursuit..
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Home and Community Life: Textiles
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Susan B. Strange
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2018.0147.02
label: accession number
content: 2018.0147
label: catalog number
content: 2018.0147.02
objectType: label: Object Name
content: frame, wood
label: Object Name
content: frame for netting
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood (frame material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 18 1/2 in x 23 1/2 in x 5/8 in; 46.99 cm x 59.69 cm x 1.5875 cm