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Object Name

Embroidery sample

Maker

McKinney and Co. (Primary maker)

Date Made

1925 - 1930
1920s
1925 - 1930

Place Made

Northern Ireland: County Antrim: Belfast
Belfast

Description

A sample of commercial machine embroidery on cream linen fabric. The image is that of Robert Burns, machine stitched in blue on the cream linen background. Around the rectangle framing the image is clearly visible an oval drawn in pencil. Made by the firm of McKinney and Co. (addresses at Ormeau Ave., Murray St., and Grosvenor Road, Belfast from the early 1920s to late 1970s). See HOYFM.2016.16.1 to HOYFM.2016.16.20 for other examples from the same source.

Materials

linen: rayon

Catalogue Number

HOYFM.2016.16.9