Border
date: label: Date
content: 18th century
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Border of fine cream-colored lace, fine hexagonal mesh sewn with dots, but almost entirely covered with elaborate border design of roses, flower sprays, and foliage arranged above curving lines in a variety of little vines and flowers and edged with leaf shapes in a scalloped line. The curving bands of ornament are regularly interrupted by a medallion of flower heads framing heart-shaped decoration. Silk cordonnet outlines motifs.
place: label: made in
content: Belgium
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Textiles Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Frances Morris
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1951-111-57
objectType: label: Type
content: lace
label: Type
content: Border
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Medium: linen, silk Technique: bobbin lace, Mechlin style
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 19 × 328 cm (7 1/2 in. × 10 ft. 9 1/8 in.)