Object Record
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Metadata
Object ID # |
1957.024.029 |
Object Name |
Scarf, Bureau |
Title |
Pincushion Cover |
Lexicon category |
2: Building Furnishings |
Year Range from |
1860 |
Year Range to |
1918 |
Made |
Unknown |
Place of Origin |
Unknown |
Description |
Rectangular pincushion cover (for a dresser's pin cushion). The runner-style item is rectangular and made of an off-white fabric with gold-coloured thread woven in (closely-spaced at the top and bottom, and widely-spaced in the center). The design is worked in green thread and has a vine and flower. The vine has been given tendrils, worked in beige thread. Very fine bobbin lace has been sewn around the cloth as a border. The lace has a scalloped edge with triangular patterns in it. |
Provenance |
Unknown maker and provenance. Last owned by Helen Carrie (née Reid), of Grey County. She and her husband, Gideon Carrie, farmed in Sydenham Township, Grey County in the 19th-century. Helen Reid was born on September 26, 1839 and died on March 18, 1918. Gideon was 42 years old in the 1871 census of Sydenham Township, Grey County. Agnes Smith (née McQuaker) inherited a number of items from her grandmother, Helen Carrie, and brought this item to the museum. Agnes Smith was a daughter of John McQuaker and a Ms. Carrie. |
Collection |
Textiles, Household Linens Collection |
Material |
Cotton/Lace/Embroidery Thread/Thread/Dye |
Dimensions |
W-48.5 L-16.2 cm |
Found |
Owen Sound, Grey County |
People |
Carrie, Gideon McQuaker, John McQuaker, Jessie |
Function |
A textile item used to protect and decorate a dresser's top surface or to place as a decorative cover on a somewhat rectangular (bolster-style) pincushion that would be kept on a lady's dresser to hold her pins, brooches, and hatpins. |