Object Details
- Description
- Twenty-five squares with mythical motifs were assembled to make this bedcover. Seven different fantastical needle lace motifs are repeated one to five times. The bedcover is assembled from different types of bobbin and needle lace. The geometric point de Venise style needle lace border is stitched together in the corners. Insertions of Brussels style bobbin lace connected with Alençon style needle lace mesh separate the various motifs. The donor identified this 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
- ID Number
- TE.T14502
- catalog number
- T14502
- accession number
- 273245
- Object Name
- lace
- bed cover
- quilt top
- war lace
- lace, war lace
- Object Type
- lace
- Physical Description
- cotton (overall material)
- lace, bobbin lace, needle lace (overall production method/technique)
- Measurements
- overall: 88 in x 88 in; 223.52 cm x 223.52 cm
- each needle lace square: 27 cm x 27 cm; 10 5/8 in x 10 5/8 in
- 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
- Government, Politics, and Reform
- War Laces
- Lace
- Textiles
- National Museum of American History
- used
- Cotton
- web subject
- Lace
- European History
- related event
- World War I
- Record ID
- nmah_625888
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a4-607e-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
