Fireside Industries via SIEA; pillow cover; overshot; 1913, Kentucky
date: label: date made
content: 1913
notes: label: Description
content: Although not a coverlet, this gold and white, overshot pillow cover was woven in a style drawn from coverlet weaving. This pattern is known as “Queen Victoria.” This pillow cover measures 21 inches square and was woven in Berea, Kentucky by students of Anna Ernburg, master weaver and founder of Fireside Industries. Ernburg established weaving program started to teach rural, Appalachians sellable skills. In 1913, the Department of Agriculture initiated a program known as the Southern Industrial Education Association, which sought to provide a retail outlet for rural craft industries at the Department of Education Headquarters among other things. This pillow cover along with a number of other woven objects including baskets and coverlets were displayed in the Department of Agriculture and offered for sale. The Smithsonian’s first textile curator, Frederick Lewton collected many of these objects for the museum’s collection and displayed them in the new Textile Hall in what is today the Arts and Industry Building, but at the time was call the National Museum.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Kentucky, Berea
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content: Home and Community Life: Textiles
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content: Coverlets
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content: Textiles
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Southern Industrial Educational Association
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: TE.T01377.000
label: catalog number
content: T01377.000
label: accession number
content: 56970
objectType: label: Object Name
content: pillow cover, overshot
label: Object Name
content: pillow cover
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: cotton, wool (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: overshot (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 21 in x 21 in; 53.34 cm x 53.34 cm