Object Details
- unknown
- Description
- This tatted lace collar is formed of 76 joined tatted medallions, each one inch in diameter, and is executed with two-ply cotton. Tatting is a knotting technique using one or two tatting shuttles to form rings and chains. The motifs are joined at the small loops called picots. According to the donor this was tatted before the Civil War.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of Mrs. Caroline Wolfley Shannon, 1937
- 1850-1861
- ID Number
- TE.T08132A
- catalog number
- T08132A
- accession number
- 145752
- Object Name
- tatting
- tatting, collar
- tatting, lace, collar
- Object Type
- tatting
- Physical Description
- tatting (overall production method/technique)
- cotton (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall, neckedge: 13 1/2 in x 3 in; 34.29 cm x 7.62 cm
- place made
- United States
- See more items in
- Home and Community Life: Textiles
- Clothing & Accessories
- Lace
- Textiles
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Adornment
- Cotton
- Lace
- Record ID
- nmah_627546
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a4-46cc-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
