Pillow Sham
date: label: made during
content: 1915-1919
name: label: maker
content: unknown
notes: label: Description
content: This pillow sham is part of a set that includes TE*T14468A, the Augusta Virginia Banner Panel. The top of the pillow sham has sprigs of flowers in Brussels Duchesse bobbin lace with Alençon style needle lace ground and a strip of Venetian style needle lace. The center is backed with fine, plain weave linen fabric divided into two panels to allow for the insertion of a pillow. It is closed with five buttons and buttonholes and edged with an insertion of Point de Paris bobbin lace. All lace and sewing was done by hand by Belgian lace makers during World War I.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Belgium
topic: label: used
content: Cotton
label: web subject
content: Lace
label: web subject
content: European History
label: used
content: Linen
label: related event
content: World War I
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content: Home and Community Life: Textiles
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content: Government, Politics, and Reform
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content: War Laces
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content: Lace
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content: Textiles
publisher: label: Related Publication
content: Kellogg, Charlotte (Hoffman). Bobbins of Belgium: A Book of Belgian Lace, Lace-Workers, Lace-Schools and Lace-Villages
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Mrs. Lewis Einstein and her sister Vicomtesse de Beughem
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: TE.T14468B
label: catalog number
content: T14468B
label: accession number
content: 276575
objectType: label: Object Name
content: lace
label: Object Name
content: pillow sham
label: Object Name
content: war lace
label: Object Name
content: lace, war lace
label: Object Type
content: lace
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: cotton (front material)
label: Physical Description
content: linen (back material)
label: Physical Description
content: bobbin lace, Point de Paris (insertion on back production method/technique)
label: Physical Description
content: bobbin lace, Brussels Duchesse (overall production method/technique)
label: Physical Description
content: needle lace, Alençon style (overall ground production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 44 in x 33 in; 111.76 cm x 83.82 cm