1996.51

Eve Simmonds (embroiderer)

Embroidered sampler in silk threads on cotton in floral design designed and made by Eve Simmonds. The sampler illustrates a number of sprays of wild flowers including flax, sundew, bog pimpernel, forget-me-not, and campanula within a flowing border design. Eve Simmonds devoted a great deal of time to her garden in Far Oakridge. She loved wild flowers and drew from nature, as well as copying designs of Elizabethan embroideries, Egyptian textiles and Hispano-Moresque pottery. This sampler originally belonged to the poet John Drinkwater.

1916 - 1916

Arts & Crafts

cotton, silk, wood, glass

, embroidered