Wooden frame holding partially embroidered netting. Needle still inserted in the netting. Owned and worked by the donor's mother, Marjorie, during her days at "finishing school" in Lausanne, Switzerland, or Paris, France, between 1933 and 1935. The girl's names inscribed on the frame may be the names of Marjorie's classmates at the school. Needlework has in many time periods been considered an important female skill, even among the well-to-do, not necessarily for utilitarian purposes but to help fill leisure time as a ladylike pursuit..