Machine-made openwork samples
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1910
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Samples of machine-made openwork and several examples of hand made lace mounted on boards. They imitate hand-embroidered net, crochet, or needlepoint. All are floral patterns plus a few of early 1920's geometric style.
label: Description
content: "Embroidered net" produced by the Schiffli Machine.
place: label: made in
content: USA
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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 The George Walter Vincent Smith Art Museum
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1971-26-2-31
objectType: label: Type
content: lace
label: Type
content: Machine-made openwork samples
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Medium: cardboard, linen, silk, metallic Technique: linen embroidery with ground cloth dissolved Examples of embroidery on net produced by the Schiffli machine Metallic embroidery on net Machine-made openwork in imitation of hand-embroidered net Mostly floral and a few geometric patterns, some designs described as "Spanish" Imitation hand-made filet Machine filet Imitation filet crochet Ploven (burnt-out lace) Fancy curtain lace made on the Levers machines Real filet (handmade) next to Machine-made filet Spotted curtain nets, made chiefly at Nottingham, England and Caudry, France.
label: Dimensions
content: (Cards) 22" x 14" or 14" x 11"