Table Cloth
notes: label: Description
content: Iris design embroidered in colored silks, with a pattern stamped on the linen. Machine lace was applied to the underside of the border. The linen was then cut away, leaving the lace insertions around the embroidery. The design was similar to one picture on p. 74 of Embroidery Lessons published in 1898 by the Brainerd & Armstrong Co., New London, CT. The embroidered doily made by Emma Louise Armbruster Hudgel who was born August 18, 1867, to William and Susannah Armbruster in OH. Married and divorced Harry Hudgel (1865-1911). They had two daughters – Florence and Helen. She died December 1, 1902.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: made at
content: United States
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content: Home and Community Life: Textiles
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content: Victorian Needlework
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content: Textiles
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Florence Hudgel Caskey and Helen Hudgel Caskey
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: TE.T13805
label: catalog number
content: T13805.000
label: accession number
content: 265107
objectType: label: Object Name
content: embroidery
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 23 in x 23 in; 58.42 cm x 58.42 cm