Alençon Needle Lace Collar
date: label: date made
content: 1855-1900
name: label: designer
content: Lefebure, Ernest
label: designed and made by the workshop
content: Lefébure, Ernest
notes: label: Description
content: Grape and vine motifs with shadow effect decorate this cotton Alençon lace collar from the late 19th century. Horsehair is used to support picots on the outside edge and on some interior motifs. The entre-deux at the neck edge is made with Droschel bobbin lace. It is attributable to the Lefébure workshop, Bayeux, France, and the pattern for this collar is in Musée des Beaux-Arts et de la Dentelle, Alençon, France. See Bruggeman, Kant in Europa, (L'Europe de la Dentelle), 1997 p. 169, and Dépalle, Brigitte Delesques, La Dentelle à l'aiguille, p. 81. It matches cuffs or borders TE*T17893B and TE*T17893C.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: France: Normandie, Bayeux
label: designed at
content: France: Normandie, Bayeux
topic: label: Subject
content: Lace
label: Subject
content: Cotton
label: Subject
content: Adornment
label: Subject
content: Cotton
label: Subject
content: Horsehair
label: Subject
content: Needle Lace
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content: Home and Community Life: Textiles
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content: Clothing & Accessories
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content: Industry & Manufacturing
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content: Lace
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content: Textiles
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Miss Marie Taveau, 1975
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: TE.T17893A
label: catalog number
content: T17893A
label: accession number
content: 319013
objectType: label: Object Name
content: lace
label: Object Name
content: lace, collar
label: Object Type
content: Collar
label: Object Type
content: lace
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: cotton (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: horsehair (outline material)
label: Measurements
content: neck edge: 33 cm x 11 cm; 13 in x 4 11/32 in