Crochet process sample, Butterfly; Ardito - Zaccheo family; 1930s-1960s
date: label: date made
content: 1930 - 1969
notes: label: Description
content: A crochet process sample, a single butterfly, worked in off white crochet cotton. One of a collection of 20 crocheted pieces worked by Mrs. Anna Consaga Ardito, or her daughter, Celestina Ardito Zaccheo, Connecticut, 1930s-60s. Mrs. Ardito and her daughter were skilled at this work and evised their own patterns, as well as using commercially printed patterns. Mrs. Ardito created her process samples so she could scale patterns up or down, and combine motifs in her own designs.
label: Description
content: Anna Consaga Ardito was born in Castellana, Italy in1865 and died in 1962. Her husband, Angelo Ardito, was a livery driver; all of their children came to the U.S. and became citizens. Family history states that they arrived in the usual fashion of serial migration, with one or two siblings coming in steerage, then working as nannies or domestics to save money in order to send for the next one or two, until all had arrived safely. The family settled in Windsor Locks, CT and later in Springfield, MA.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Home and Community Life: Textiles
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Thomas Zaccheo
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2018.0015.10
label: catalog number
content: 2018.0015.10
label: accession number
content: 2018.0015
objectType: label: Object Name
content: crochet sample
label: Object Name
content: sample, crochet
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: butterfly (overall shape)
label: Physical Description
content: hand crocheted (overall production method/technique)
label: Physical Description
content: white (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: cotton (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 3/8 in x 4 7/8 in; 11.1125 cm x 12.3825 cm