Object Details
- facilitator
- Hoover, Herbert
- designer
- de Rudder, Isidore
- Description
- This pillow top was designed by the Belgian sculptor Isidore de Rudder (1855-1943). The design of starfish, crabs, and eels in seaweed with the central inscription “1914 Yzer 1915” commemorates a famous battle at the Yzer River, where Belgian engineers prevented the German troops from advancing by manipulating the locks on the Yzer River to flood the surrounding fields.
- This pillow top in point de Venise style needle lace was made by Belgian lace makers during World War I. The pattern is preserved in the Royal Museum of Art and History in Brussels.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of Vicomtesse de Beughem
- made during
- 1915-1918
- part of design
- 1915
- 1914
- ID Number
- TE.E383966
- catalog number
- E383966
- accession number
- 172208
- Object Name
- lace
- pillow top
- war lace
- Object Type
- lace
- Physical Description
- cotton (overall material)
- needle lace (overall production method/technique)
- Measurements
- overall: 16 in x 16 in; 40.64 cm x 40.64 cm
- place made
- Belgium
- Related Publication
- Bulletin van het Rijksmuseum
- Kellogg, Charlotte (Hoffman). Bobbins of Belgium: A Book of Belgian Lace, Lace-Workers, Lace-Schools and Lace-Villages
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- Home and Community Life: Textiles
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- War Laces
- Lace
- Art
- Textiles
- Domestic Furnishings
- National Museum of American History
- web subject
- Lace
- European History
- used
- Cotton
- related event
- Battle of the Yser
- World War I
- Record ID
- nmah_620677
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a4-5765-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
