Description:
Square, block-printed (and hand painted?) table mat with the initials "EM" for Ellen Miller (1854-1929) and a date "1907 in one of the floral baskets. The primary design is around the perimeter with a basket of flowers printed, dyed or painted a deeper pink set within a grayish-purple quarter round in each of the four corners and a printed or stencilled lobed laurel wreath around the inner border, all on a pink ground. After studying art at the National Academy of Design and the Art Students League with Margaret Whiting (1860-1946) in the 1880s, Miller and Whiting moved to Deerfield with their families by 1895. In 1896, Miller and Whiting co-founded the Deerfield Society of Blue and White Needlework. In addition to her embroidery work with the Society, Ellen Miller also experimented with resist-dyed printed, stenciled, and painted designs. Using natural dyes, she produced smaller domestic textiles such as table mats, decorative and functional accessories placed on flat furniture surfaces. Unlike needlework produced by the Society, Miller’s printed and painted designs took inspiration less from the past and more from contemporary art movements, including Art Nouveau.
Subjects:
Textile fabrics; Linen; polychrome Link to share this object record:
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