Material Type

Artifact

Other Name

WOMAN'S

Date Range From

1850

Date Range To

1880

Materials

SILK, LACE

No. Pieces

1

Height

0.1

Length

60.1

Width

60.1

Description

SQUARE, WHITE SILK. HANDKERCHIEF HAS A 3 CM BORDER OF AN OPEN STITCH. THE BORDER MEETS AT EACH CORNER, WHERE THE STITCHING IS EVEN WIDER, AND MORE OPEN. THE EDGE OF HANKIE IS TRIMMED WITH LACE, AND AT EACH CORNER THE LACE IS GATHERED. ONE CORNER OF HANKIE IS EMBROIDERED WITH A RIBBON AND FLORAL DESIGN IN THE CENTRE OF THE DESIGN, "SARAH" IS EMBROIDERED; ALL OF THIS IS IN WHITE. THERE IS A SMALL ORANGE STAIN BESIDE EMBROIDERY. THERE IS A HOLE IN ONE SIDE ALONG 3 CM BORDER.

Subjects

PERSONAL GEAR

Historical Association

PERSONAL CARE

History

SEE P19920058006-GA FOR HISTORY. *UPDATE* IN 2015 COLLECTIONS ASSISTANT JANE EDMUNDSON CONDUCTED A SURVEY OF ART OBJECTS, INCLUDING ONE DONATED BY MARJORIE WELCH'S MOTHER, NORA EVERSON. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION ABOUT THE SHERLOCK/MACLEOD FAMILY, SEE RECORDS P19960108000 AND P19740093000.

*UPDATE* IN 2021 TWO COLLECTIONS ASSISTANTS, RYLEY GELINAS AND O. E., CONDUCTED AN AUDIT OF THE ROLLED TEXTILE COLLECTION, INCLUDING SEVERAL TEXTILES DONATED BY MARJORIE AND JACK WELCH. ON SEPTEMBER 23, 2021, GELINAS INTERVIEWED PADDIE WALMSLEY, THE DONORS’ DAUGHTER, ABOUT HER PARENTS’ DONATION AND HER MEMORIES OF THE OBJECTS OF THIS DONATION, INCLUDING THE HANDKERCHIEF. WALMSLEY WAS ABLE TO IDENTIFY THE HANDKERCHIEF AS LIKELY ORIGINATING ON THE SHERLOCK SIDE OF THE FAMILY. “MY GRANDMOTHER, I MEAN, SHE WAS OF THE AGE, AND EVEN MY MOM, THEY ALWAYS USED COTTON HANKIES.” WALMSLEY WAS UNABLE TO IDENTIFY THIS SPECIFIC HANDKERCHIEF, HOWEVER, SHE DID EXPLAIN THAT “GRAN ALWAYS HAD STUFF LIKE THAT, MAYBE NOT THAT BIG LIKE THAT ONE, BUT ALWAYS ON HER TABLES, YOU KNOW, UNDERNEATH DOILIES OR ON THE COFFEE TABLE AND BACKS OF CHAIRS.” “THEY LOVED BEAUTIFUL THINGS,” WALMSLEY SAYS OF HER PARENTS. “MY GRANDMOTHER ALWAYS, YOU KNOW, HAD A BEAUTIFUL HOME WITH THINGS ON DISPLAY AND IT WAS ALWAYS THINGS, YOU KNOW OF, NOT VALUE, BUT THINGS OF IMPORTANCE TO HER.” WALMSLEY STATED THAT OBJECTS OF THE COLLECTION WERE DONATED TO THE MUSEUM BY HER PARENTS AS A WAY TO PRESERVE THE HISTORY: “SHE [MARJORIE WELCH] KNEW THE VALUE OF HISTORY AND THAT WAS KIND HER THING… AND MOM JUST WANTED, WOULD WANT SOMEBODY ELSE TO ENJOY THEM, AND YOU KNOW, TO KNOW THE HISTORY AND SEE IT.”

Catalogue Number

P19920058017

Acquisition Date

1993-11

Collection

Museum

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