Parchment with unfinished needle lace
date: label: Date
content: 17th century
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Long strip of parchment with design drawn onto it in ink. The outline of the design has been sewn onto the parchment with linen thread and about half of the needlelace has been filled in.The design is of curving floral sprays. There is no repeat in the width but it appears as if the designer intended this to be one unit of the repeat as sketchy drawing at the far end repeats the shapes at the beginning.
label: Description
content: The parchment arrived in a small cloth handmade bag (recently made) of 17/18 century silk damask and metallic bobbin lace.
place: label: made in
content: England
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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 Titi Halle
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1991-85-1
objectType: label: Type
content: lace
label: Type
content: Parchment with unfinished needle lace
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Medium: linen, parchment Technique: needle lace (loop and twist) in a variety of stitches and a variety of combinations of open and closed areas
label: Dimensions
content: H x W (parchment): 8.5 × 47 cm (3 3/8 × 18 1/2 in.)