Grainger Museum

Ella Grainger

Tailor

Undated

Drawn with china paints on glazed tile surface and re-fired

6" x 6"

Grainger Museum Collection

Text of Poem

Here is a tailor and his tools:
pair of scissors and cotton spools,
cloth, needles and thimble
+ his fingers nimble;
with all of which
he's wont to make dresses
till his fingers ache.

YET, even so I must confess:
he's making ME another dress!

Ella Grainger (1889-1979)