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Machine Embroidered Dish Towel, Poem by Louise Owen
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| Accession #: | 4037.3 |
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| Title: | Machine Embroidered Dish Towel, Poem by Louise Owen |
| Object Type: | Towel, Dish |
| Participants: |
Allen, Pearl E. (creator)
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| Physical Description: | Square towel made from feedsack, Spokane's Northwest Milling Co. stamp still visible. Machine embrodiered with brown thread, leaves in the center and poem around the edges. |
| Description: | Spokane resident Pearl Allen invented a unique way to record family stories. One day, she was patching her sons' overalls using a foot-powered sewing machine. She lifted the machine's pressure foot so she could move the fabric freely, and machine-stitched the boys' names in flowing script. From that moment on, she recorded family moments on fabric of all kinds, as with this dish towel of feed sack cloth embellished at the margin with a favorite poem. Pearl's free-form stitchery reflects a free spirit. Her son Clyde once described her as being "as independent as a hog on ice." |
| Category: | Textiles |
| Subjects/Topics/Concepts: |
Household Accessory (Furnishing)
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| Dimensions: |
Object L x W 32 x 33 1/2"
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| Materials/Techniques: |
needlework (Technique)
muslin (Material)
thread (Material)
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| Marks/Inscription: |
Feedsack inscription: Northwest Milling Co. Spokane, Wash.
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| Credit Line: | Gift of Clyde and Kathleen Allen, 2002 |
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