The Ehthel Wright Mohamed Stitchery Museum

The Museum
The museum is the former home of Ethel Wright Mohamed. Her house is an enchanting place, thought first and foremost in terms of a home. The unusual charm in this 1906 home also reflects the taste and style of Ethel and her husband Hassen Mohamed. It is a fitting tribute to their labor of love in keeping it alive for all to see. In her later life she lived in her studio on the grounds.

Curator, Carol Mohamed Ivy, daughter of Ethel Mohamed, guides visitors through the exhibit. She gives a very personal and first-hand glimpse into the delightful stories behind each piece.

Ethel Mohamed fashioned each stitchery from her family's daily life or imagined events. The tour through the museum reveals high-ceilinged rooms covered with "memory pictures" which hang from floor to ceiling on almost every wall.The sketches have been filled with very intricate, fanciful and colorful designs to capture treasured moments of time. You will love the numerous decorative trees, done with vivid imagination, all different and yet seeming to come from the same dream world.

You will begin to feel that you know the eight children who appear again and again as she captures them for all time in her favorite memories. In Ethel's fanciful imagination her children also appear in forms and symbols other than themselves. You will be surprised and wonderfully entertained by her loving and whimsical imagination.