Object Details
- unknown
- Description
- This border is Chantilly bobbin lace made in black silk. The design consists of floral motifs with four-inch long pattern repeats. The edge is slightly scalloped with picots. It was probably made in Grammont (Geraardsbergen), Belgium and was identified by the donor as lace made by Belgian lace makers during World War I.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of Vicomtesse de Beughem
- made during
- 1917-1918
- ID Number
- TE.T14503
- catalog number
- T14503
- accession number
- 273245
- Object Name
- lace
- border
- war lace
- lace, war lace
- Object Type
- lace
- Physical Description
- silk (overall material)
- bobbin lace, Chantilly (overall production method/technique)
- black (overall color)
- Measurements
- overall: 3 7/8 in x 38 in; 9.8425 cm x 96.52 cm
- place made
- Belgium: Flanders, Geraardsbergen
- 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
- Silk
- web subject
- Lace
- European History
- related event
- World War I
- Record ID
- nmah_627369
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a4-61a0-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
