Object Details
- unknown
- Description
- This collar has motifs of peace doves and floral vases executed in mixed Brussels bobbin and needle lace techniques with ground and fillings in point de Gaze style needle lace. The scalloped edge has picots. 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
- 1914-1918
- ID Number
- TE.T14223
- catalog number
- T14223
- accession number
- 273245
- Object Name
- lace
- collar
- war lace
- lace, war lace
- Object Type
- lace
- Physical Description
- cotton (overall material)
- bobbin and needle lace, Mixed Brussels (overall production method/technique)
- Measurements
- collar: 7 in; 17.78 cm
- neck edge: 24 in; 60.96 cm
- place made
- Belgium
- Related Publication
- Kellogg, Charlotte (Hoffman). Bobbins of Belgium: A Book of Belgian Lace, Lace-Workers, Lace-Schools and Lace-Villages
- See more items in
- Home and Community Life: Textiles
- Government, Politics, and Reform
- Clothing & Accessories
- War Laces
- Lace
- Textiles
- National Museum of American History
- web subject
- Lace
- European History
- used
- Cotton
- related event
- World War I
- Record ID
- nmah_623841
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a4-6514-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
