Object Details
- 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
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- maker
- unknown
- made during
- 1914-1918
- Credit Line
- Gift of Vicomtesse de Beughem
- 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
- Object Name
- lace
- collar
- war lace
- lace, war lace
- Object Type
- lace
