Object Details
- Description
- Mrs. Elizabeth Lord Lakeman, who was born 1767 in Ipswich, Massachusetts, and died 1862 in Hallowell, Maine used this pillow, pattern and bobbins to make bobbin lace most of her life. Mrs. Lakeman most likely made Ipswich lace in the late 1780's and 1790's during the peak of the Ipswich lace industry. The pillow is stuffed with sea-grass or straw and the parchment pattern has holes pricked for the lace. The bobbins are whittled from bamboo, other reeds, or wood. The current pattern and lace on the pillow are from around 1860.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- maker
- Lakeman, Elizabeth Lord
- date made
- 1785-1795
- lacemaker using pillow
- 1767-1862
- used
- 1789-1790
- 1785-1862
- Credit Line
- Gift of Mrs. Walter DuBois Brookings, 1948
- Physical Description
- parchment (pattern material)
- cotton (lace material)
- metal (pins material)
- cotton (cover of pillow material)
- straw (stuffing material)
- linen (inside cover of pillow material)
- bobbin lace (lace production method/technique)
- wood and reeds (bobbins material)
- Measurements
- overall, circumference: 29 1/2 in x 8 in; 74.93 cm x 20.32 cm
- bobbins: 4 3/4 in x 7/8 in; 12.065 cm x 2.2225 cm
- overall, pattern: 31 in x 1 3/8 in; 78.74 cm x 3.4925 cm
- Object Name
- pillow, lace
- lace pillow, lace
- lace pillow, lace, pattern
