Posted 11 months ago
pax2021
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Still trying to learn who or what this is from, maybe an item given out at the 1st Exposition held in 1889 or given at one years after this one??Not sure if the company that gave it out is called The White or something to do with White. I am still researching so will add more when I find out. I do welcome any help in finding its origins!!!!
Welcome to CW. Very intriguing piece..not sure what the meaning is? Here's another piece..
https://www.digitalcommonwealth.org/search/commonwealth:3f462k623
I suggest you reach out to Boston Public Library and ask them what it means..
I have an idea that might put you on the right track for getting answers:
White was the brand of a sewing machine.
The butterfly looks like it is stitched using a technique called punch embroidery, usually done by hand. Possibly the White sewing machine could sew stitches of punch embroidery (small loops of embroidery floss making a design on the top side of the cloth but flat stitches on the back side so that the finished piece of embroidery lays flat).
The punch embroidery fabric square may have been an advertising give-away item promoting the White sewing machine.
Maybe demonstrations of quickly completing a piece of embroidery could be seen in the Exposition building.
Please let us know if this turns out to be correct! :^)