Scottish Rite Masonic Museum & Library

Masonic Apron
1820-1830
Maker not marked
USA: Massachusetts
Silk; linen; paint; gold leaf; ink
overall: 15 x 14 x 1/8 in.; 38.1 x 35.56 x .3175 cm
Gift of George Rawson
75.17

Masonic Apron with rectangular body with rounded corners and false rounded flap; copperplate engraving printed on silk; hand colored with gold leaf; all-seeing eye on flap; central design of "G" within arch, pavement, three steps, and Bible, square, compasses, three lights; columns and globes on either side with symbols of sun, moon, and stars, trowel, square, level, plumb, beehive, pot of incense and mallet and rule within wreath at bottom of apron. Blue ribbon delineates flap; pleated blue ribbon trim.