Border with Attached CRB Label
date: label: made during
content: 1914-1918
label: Associated Date
content: 1914-1918
name: label: facilitator
content: Hoover, Herbert
label: distributor
content: Hoover, Lou Henry
label: maker
content: unknown
notes: label: Description
content: This Alençon needle lace border was made by Belgian lace makers during World War One. A white cord at one end of the lace attaches a metal label used by the Commission for Relief in Belgium (C.R.B.) to ascertain authenticity as made for the CRB. A narrow machine-made lace is added to the side that will be sewn unto a garment.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Belgium
label: made at
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: Cultures & Communities
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content: War Laces
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content: Lace
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content: Art
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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: 2013.0121.19
label: accession number
content: 2013.0121
label: catalog number
content: 2013.0121.19
objectType: label: Object Name
content: border
label: Object Name
content: war lace
label: Object Name
content: lace
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: needle lace, Alençon (overall production method/technique)
label: Physical Description
content: linen (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: cotton (machine made edge material)
label: Measurements
content: lace: 1 3/8 in x 78 in; 3.4925 cm x 198.12 cm
label: Measurements
content: metal label: .3 cm x 1.2 cm; 1/8 in x 15/32 in