Armenian embroidery "Folk handicraft" purse; Denison House, Boston,
date: label: date made
content: ca. 1917?
notes: label: Description
content: Armenian embroidery "Folk handicraft" purse; Denison House, Boston. A drawstring bag with Armenian Marash Embroidery, four Armenian needlelace flowers (oya) two on bottom and one one each side, drawstring crocheted, worked by Armenian women at Denison House in Boston, MA.
label: Description
content: With the purse is an Ink-inscribed paper note: worked by Armenian women at Denison House, Boston Mass.
label: Description
content: Printed and inked paper label: Printed - "Per Pane e Macere" arched over a printed shell./ THE FOLK HANDICRAFTS / Denison House / 93 Tyler St. , Boston, Mass / D / No. (Inked: G - 7050 / Price (Inked: 4.75).
label: Description
content: Paper price tag Inked - (/) 7050 / 4.75
label: Description
content: Denison House was a settlement house run by women, founded in 1892 as part of the College Settlements Associaiton, a Wellesley College alumni-based group. It was modelled on Jane Addams Hull House, to provide social services and education to local residents, mostly poor, and mostly recent immigrants. An exhibition of handicraft made at Denison House, exhibited at the Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial Art in 1917, included "the work of Italian, Syrian, Greek and Armenian craftsmen and craftswomen, in silver, leather, linen, silk embroideries, etc., from old designs copied in part from treasure pieces in palaces, museums and private collections in Europe and America." (cited in Wikipedia)
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Massachusetts, Boston
label: Associated Place
content: United States: Massachusetts, Lowell
topic: label: web subject
content: Needlework
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content: Home and Community Life: Textiles
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content: Textiles
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2013.0121.01
label: accession number
content: 2013.0121
label: catalog number
content: 2013.0121.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: purse
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: linen (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 13 5/8 in x 10 1/8 in; 34.6075 cm x 25.7175 cm