Object Details
- unknown
- Description
- This pillow sham is part of a set that includes TE*T14468A, the Augusta Virginia Banner Panel. The top of the pillow sham has sprigs of flowers in Brussels Duchesse bobbin lace with Alençon style needle lace ground and a strip of Venetian style needle lace. The center is backed with fine, plain weave linen fabric divided into two panels to allow for the insertion of a pillow. It is closed with five buttons and buttonholes and edged with an insertion of Point de Paris bobbin lace. All lace and sewing was done by hand by Belgian lace makers during World War I.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of Mrs. Lewis Einstein and her sister Vicomtesse de Beughem
- made during
- 1915-1919
- ID Number
- TE.T14468B
- catalog number
- T14468B
- accession number
- 276575
- Object Name
- lace
- pillow sham
- war lace
- lace, war lace
- Object Type
- lace
- Physical Description
- cotton (front material)
- linen (back material)
- bobbin lace, Point de Paris (insertion on back production method/technique)
- bobbin lace, Brussels Duchesse (overall production method/technique)
- needle lace, Alençon style (overall ground production method/technique)
- Measurements
- overall: 44 in x 33 in; 111.76 cm x 83.82 cm
- place made
- Belgium
- Related Publication
- 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
- Government, Politics, and Reform
- War Laces
- Lace
- Textiles
- National Museum of American History
- used
- Cotton
- web subject
- Lace
- European History
- used
- Linen
- related event
- World War I
- Record ID
- nmah_625884
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a4-6079-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
