Perforated Paper Picture
notes: label: Description
content: Cardwork which we know today as perforated paper was a popular pastime during the Victorian era. This interesting piece is a picture of a boy and girl fishing on the bank of a stream. The faces, hands, elbow, and foot are printed cutouts that are glued on to the picture, with the hand, elbow, and foot being slightly padded. The boy’s right hand has been cut to insert a fishing pole. It is worked in Berlin wool, silk, floss, felt, beads, paper, wood, and silk covered wire. The count of the perforated paper is 20 to the inch. It has what appears to be a thin copper sheet backing the non-stitched areas and is framed in passé partout technique with an embossed gold paper trim around the edge of the picture. Brewer’s Dictionary defines passé partout as “a sort of picture-frame _ the middle is cut out to the size of the picture, and the border or edge is embossed, so as to present a raised margin. The passé-partout and picture, being backed and face with a glass, are held together by an edging of paper which shows on the glass face.”
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 Anna Antik
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: TE.T18248
label: catalog number
content: T18248
label: accession number
content: 1977.0161
objectType: label: Object Name
content: embroidery, picture, perforated paper
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 14 in x 15 1/2 in; 35.56 cm x 39.37 cm