Object Details
- facilitator
- Hoover, Herbert
- unknown
- Description
- This round linen table cover contains the inscription “1915 ARDOYE - KLOOSTER DER H. KINDERSHEID VAN JESUS – WEESKINDEREN” (1915 Ardoye - Convent of the Holy Childhood of Jesus - Orphans) in the center. Ardoye (Ardooie) is in West Flanders, Belgium, in the area where the German army used poison gas for the first time on the western front in the second battle of Ypres in 1915.
- The table cover is centered with bobbin lace. Bruges flower lace as well as tape lace and braided mesh techniques were utilized by the Belgian lace makers, who made this during World War I.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of Vicomtesse de Beughem
- made during
- 1915-1918
- part of design
- 1915
- ID Number
- TE.E383962
- catalog number
- E383962
- accession number
- 172208
- Object Name
- lace
- table topper
- war lace
- Object Type
- lace
- Physical Description
- cotton (overall material)
- linen (mat material)
- bobbin lace (overall production method/technique)
- Measurements
- overall: 28 in; 71.12 cm
- place made
- Belgium
- name part of design
- Belgium: Flanders, Ardooie
- Related Publication
- Kellogg, Charlotte (Hoffman). Bobbins of Belgium: A Book of Belgian Lace, Lace-Workers, Lace-Schools and Lace-Villages
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- War Laces
- Lace
- Textiles
- Domestic Furnishings
- National Museum of American History
- web subject
- Lace
- Orphanages
- European History
- used
- Cotton
- related event
- World War I
- Record ID
- nmah_623481
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a4-4f46-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
