Raised Embroidery
name: label: maker
content: Edson, Viola Mosher
notes: label: Description
content: A raised woolwork piece, with a floral wreath on black felted wool fabric. The raised work is a bit different in that it is created with layered stitches (laid and couched) rather than tufted or turkey stitching. Made by Viola Mosher Edson who was born April 27, 1829 to Hugh S. and Abigail Briggs Mosher in New York. She married George W. Edson about 1857 and had one daughter Effa. George died in 1871 and in 1881 she married William Henry Lusk. She died February 13, 1909. The piece was donated by her granddaughter Mildred Corliss Andrews.
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 Mildred Corliss Andrews
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: TE.T14676
label: catalog number
content: T14676.000
label: accession number
content: 279550
objectType: label: Object Name
content: embroidery, raised