Object Details
- Description
- This seventeenth century French style needle lace border was reputedly made in Schleswig-Holstein. It is a rare specimen with vase and flower motifs in a dense pattern with symmetry and wide scallops. The scalloped edge is made of buttonholed bars with picots. The small areas between motifs have Alençon type mesh. See the same pattern made in bobbin lace in Santina Levey, Lace – A History, Fig. 138. The lace was joined and mended during the third quarter of the nineteenth century, and a narrow machine made edge has been whip-stitched to the lace to protect the lace when sewed onto clothing.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- maker
- unknown
- date made
- 1640-1650
- associated date
- 1640-1650
- Credit Line
- Mrs. James W. Pinchot, 1908
- Physical Description
- linen (overall material)
- needle lace (overall production method/technique)
- Measurements
- overall: 3 in x 16 1/2 in; 7.62 cm x 41.91 cm
- Object Name
- Lace
- lace, fragment border
- lace, fragment, border
- Object Type
- lace
