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The Pomegranate Motif

Ellen Miller

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Ellen Miller's Pomegranates

Ellen Miller, Design for a pomegranate square, 1900-1910

Pomegranate Studies

Eventually, Ellen Miller's design studies focused repeated attention on the pomegranate. This series of sketches became the building blocks arranged by Miller into a variety compositions which Blue and White Society needleworkers stitched onto quite modern appliqued and embroidered table runners and table squares.