Treasure Chest Thursday: Handwork
Mar. 16th, 2011 08:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dee_burrisI have two pieces of "handwork" done by my great-grandmother, Hattie Belle Chapin. (We called her Mema.)
They were framed by my grandmother, Hattie's daughter, Doris Balding.
Hattie instilled a sense of reverence and respect in handwork in all her daughters.
In some way, a woman's handwork was for them a measure of her worth.
This was Mema's favorite type of decorative handwork - crewel embroidery.
On the paper cover of the back of each frame in her flourishing script, my grandmother wrote:
Done by Hattie Chapin Balding, 1970, in her 83rd year.
I hope to save them for my granddaughters when they reach an age where they can appreciate them.
They were framed by my grandmother, Hattie's daughter, Doris Balding.
Hattie instilled a sense of reverence and respect in handwork in all her daughters.
In some way, a woman's handwork was for them a measure of her worth.
This was Mema's favorite type of decorative handwork - crewel embroidery.
On the paper cover of the back of each frame in her flourishing script, my grandmother wrote:
Done by Hattie Chapin Balding, 1970, in her 83rd year.
I hope to save them for my granddaughters when they reach an age where they can appreciate them.