Scalloped Mid-Seventeenth Century Needle Lace Border
date: label: date made
content: 1640-1650
label: associated date
content: 1640-1650
name: label: maker
content: unknown
notes: label: Description
content: This seventeenth century French style needle lace border was reputedly made in Schleswig-Holstein. It is a rare specimen with vase and flower motifs in a dense pattern with symmetry and wide scallops. The scalloped edge is made of buttonholed bars with picots. The small areas between motifs have Alençon type mesh. See the same pattern made in bobbin lace in Santina Levey, Lace – A History, Fig. 138. The lace was joined and mended during the third quarter of the nineteenth century, and a narrow machine made edge has been whip-stitched to the lace to protect the lace when sewed onto clothing.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Germany: Schleswig-Holstein, Schleswig
label: made at
content: Germany: Schleswig-Holstein, Schleswig
label: made at
content: France
topic: label: Subject
content: Needle Lace
label: Subject
content: Lace
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content: Home and Community Life: Textiles
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content: Clothing & Accessories
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content: Lace
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content: Textiles
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Mrs. James W. Pinchot, 1908
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: TE.L6452
label: catalog number
content: L6452
label: accession number
content: 48717
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Lace
label: Object Name
content: lace, fragment border
label: Object Name
content: lace, fragment, border
label: Object Type
content: lace
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: linen (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: needle lace (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 in x 16 1/2 in; 7.62 cm x 41.91 cm