Dressmaking sampler
Sophie Golden
Category
Education objects
Date
circa 1892
Materials
Cotton
Measurements
162 mm (length)
Place of origin
Westgate House
Order this imageCollection
Sudbury Hall Museum of Childhood, Derbyshire
NT 665364
Summary
A doll's cream cotton petticoat sampler with five pin tucks above the hem (circa 1892). The petticoat is gathered at the waistband and fastened with a single button. This item is possibly the ' work of Sophie Golden, aged sixteen years, a pupil of Westgate House, Peterborough. Conducted by Miss Willoughby.'
Provenance
Loaned to the Museum of Childhood by the Betty Cadbury Trust Sudbury in November 1993.
Makers and roles
Sophie Golden, maker