Linen table cover or altar frontal with drawnwork and bobbin lace; 17th C.
date: label: date made
content: 1600-1650
notes: label: Description
content: A table cover or altar frontal (?) of plain weave undyed linen, with drawnwork bands across the long sides (narrower band with one repeating stylized plant motif; wider band with repeating double meander and medallion motif) and bobbin lace along the side with the wider drawnwork border; 17th C. The drawn work is very fine, the early 1600s braided bobbin lace edging is whip stitched along the wider border side
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Home and Community Life: Textiles
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content: Lace
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content: Textiles
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Miss Harriet Winslow
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: TE.T12772
label: catalog number
content: T12772.000
label: accession number
content: 240504
objectType: label: Object Name
content: table cover?
label: Object Name
content: altar frontal?
label: Object Type
content: lace
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: linen (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: drawn work (overall production method/technique)
label: Physical Description
content: bobbin lace (edging production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: bobbin lace border: 73 in x 1 1/2 in; 185.42 cm x 3.81 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 73 in x 31 1/2 in; 185.42 cm x 80.01 cm