Object Record
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Metadata
Object ID # |
2017.045.060 |
Object Name |
Scarf, Bureau |
Title |
Embroidered Dresser Scarf |
Year Range from |
1920 |
Year Range to |
1940 |
Made |
McKay (née Beattie), Olive |
Place of Origin |
Unknown/Grey County, Ontario |
Description |
One rectangular bureau or furniture scarf with a stitchd man and a woman (Colonial outfits) having tea at a table with a red tablecloth on it at either end. The pattern has been printed onto the cloth and the sewer has stitched over the pattern. There is a pointing-downward bouquet of flowers below the people on each end. The flowers are four-petaled and yellow, red, blue, pink and purple. |
Provenance |
Likely made by Olive McKay (neé Beattie) after she married Donald Gordon (Doug) McKay in 1930. They farmed on his parents' farm located about one mile north of Leith, at Lot 28, Concession A in Sydenham Township, Grey County until 1940, when they moved to Derby Township to another farm (Lot 9, Concession 8, along Highway 21). The item was last kept by their daughter, Donna McKay-Mills of Owen Sound, Grey County. |
Collection |
Household Equipment, 20th-c Collection |
Material |
Linen/Embroidery Thread/Dye |
Found |
Derby Township (formerly), Township of Georgian Bluffs, Grey County |
People |
McKay, Olive McKay, Donald Gordon (Doug) McKay-Mills, Donna |
Subjects |
Embroidery Bedrooms |
Search Terms |
Jackson Leith (Village and area of) |