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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

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