Farmer's (Seed) Wreath
DimensionsOverall: 101.6 x 81.3 cm
Credit LineGift of Mrs. Louis Dafoe, London, Ontario, 1962
Object number1962.108.001
Label TextMaking a wreath of seeds, hair, or other natural materials was a popular form of "fancywork" in the second half of the nineteenth century--a craft activity pursued by a Victorian woman with the intent of beautifying her home and putting her good taste and, by extent, her good moral character, on public view.
Nancy Dunlap Bercaw, "Solid Objects/Mutable Meanings: Fancywork and the Construction of Bourgeois Culture, 1840-1880" Winterthur Portfolio 26:4 (1991): 231-247
NameWreath
