Object Details
- Description
- This sample of handmade torchon style bobbin lace insertion has roseground, leaves arranged as spokes, and half stitch trails. It was made at the Amoy Lace Guild in China and sold for twenty cents per yard in US gold in 1913. The Amoy Lace Guild was established by missionaries in 1885 as a charitable organization to provide a source of income to indigent Chinese women and children. Patterns and linen thread was imported from England and Ireland. Lace from the Amoy Lace Guild won a silver medal at the St. Louis exposition in 1904.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- maker
- Amoy Lace Guild
- date made
- 1905-1912
- 1900-1912
- Credit Line
- Amoy Lace Guild, Amoy, China, through Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, Department of Commerce.1913
- Physical Description
- bobbin lace, torchon (overall production method/technique)
- linen (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 8 in x 2 1/4 in; x 20.32 cm x 5.715 cm
- Object Name
- Lace
- lace, sample
- Object Type
- lace
