Collar with Attached Tag
date: label: made during
content: 1914-1918
name: label: agent
content: Hoover, Herbert
label: maker
content: unknown
notes: label: Description
content: This lace collar is made with fine Brussels bobbin lace motifs in Louis XVI style, connected by droschel bobbin lace ground. The attached tag has a red wax seal embossed with “Commission for Relief in Belgium, Dentelle Belge” and includes an image of the Belgian Lion in the center.
label: Description
content: The card on the back of the seal reads: "N° 13/0446 Point Bruxelles Droschel Louis XVI made by hand. Sold by the C'on for Relief in Belgium". The lace was made by Belgian lace makers during World War I.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Belgium
topic: label: Subject
content: Lace
label: Subject
content: Lace Making
label: general subject association
content: European History
label: related event
content: World War I
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content: Home and Community Life: Textiles
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content: Clothing & Accessories
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content: Family & Social Life
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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: transfer from Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2013.0121.20
label: accession number
content: 2013.0121
label: catalog number
content: 2013.0121.20
objectType: label: Object Name
content: collar
label: Object Name
content: war lace
label: Object Name
content: lace
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: lace, bobbin lace, Brussels, Droschel (overall production method/technique)
label: Physical Description
content: linen (overall, lace material)
label: Measurements
content: seal: 2.7 cm x 4 cm; 1 1/16 in x 1 9/16 in
label: Measurements
content: card: 8.1 cm x 5.7 cm; 3 3/16 in x 2 1/4 in
label: Measurements
content: overall, lace: 57 in x 2 1/4 in; 144.78 cm x 5.715 cm