Object Details
- unknown
- Description
- Point de Flandre continuous bobbin lace was utilized to make this mid-18th century style border. Heavier cordonnet or gimp outlines the motifs of large floral swags. The pattern repeat is seven and one-quarter inches long, and the edge is scalloped with picots. The donor identified this border 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.T14506
- catalog number
- T14506
- accession number
- 273245
- Object Name
- lace
- border
- war lace
- lace, war lace
- Object Type
- lace
- Physical Description
- cotton (overall material)
- bobbin lace, Point de Flandre (overall production method/technique)
- Measurements
- overall: 3 1/8 in x 50 1/2 in; 7.9375 cm x 128.27 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
- Government, Politics, and Reform
- War Laces
- Lace
- Textiles
- National Museum of American History
- web subject
- Lace
- European History
- used
- Cotton
- Subject
- World War I
- related event
- World War I
- Record ID
- nmah_623453
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a4-4ab3-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
