Object Details
- agent
- Hoover, Herbert
- unknown
- Description
- This lace collar is made with fine Brussels bobbin lace motifs in Louis XVI style, connected by droschel bobbin lace ground. The attached tag has a red wax seal embossed with “Commission for Relief in Belgium, Dentelle Belge” and includes an image of the Belgian Lion in the center.
- The card on the back of the seal reads: "N° 13/0446 Point Bruxelles Droschel Louis XVI made by hand. Sold by the C'on for Relief in Belgium". The lace was made by Belgian lace makers during World War I.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- transfer from Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum
- made during
- 1914-1918
- ID Number
- 2013.0121.20
- accession number
- 2013.0121
- catalog number
- 2013.0121.20
- Object Name
- collar
- war lace
- lace
- Physical Description
- lace, bobbin lace, Brussels, Droschel (overall production method/technique)
- linen (overall, lace material)
- Measurements
- seal: 2.7 cm x 4 cm; 1 1/16 in x 1 9/16 in
- card: 8.1 cm x 5.7 cm; 3 3/16 in x 2 1/4 in
- overall, lace: 57 in x 2 1/4 in; 144.78 cm x 5.715 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
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- Family & Social Life
- War Laces
- Lace
- Textiles
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Lace
- Lace Making
- general subject association
- European History
- related event
- World War I
- Record ID
- nmah_1442724
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746ad-eb91-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
