Monogrammed Tablecloth
date: label: made during
content: 1914-1919
name: label: described
content: Whitlock, Ella Brainerd
label: maker
content: unknown
notes: label: Description
content: The center of this fine linen tablecloth is decorated with three small monograms "EW" and scroll designs. EW most likely stands for Ella Whitlock, the wife of the American Envoy to Belgium. Mrs. Brand Whitlock worked tirelessly on behalf of the Belgian lace makers during World War I.
label: Description
content: The eight and one-half inch wide border on the tablecloth is executed in Point de Paris bobbin lace with symmetrical floral designs of roses and edelweiss, the favorite flowers of Queen Elisabeth of Belgium. Belgian lace makers made this tablecloth during World War I.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Belgium: Flanders, Turnhout
topic: label: web subject
content: Lace
label: web subject
content: European History
label: used
content: Cotton
label: web subject
content: Embroidery
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
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content: Domestic Furnishings
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 Vicomtesse de Beughem
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: TE.E383964
label: catalog number
content: E383964
label: accession number
content: 172208
objectType: label: Object Name
content: lace
label: Object Name
content: table topper
label: Object Name
content: war lace
label: Object Type
content: lace
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: linen (center material)
label: Physical Description
content: cotton (part: outside edge, lace material)
label: Physical Description
content: cotton (monogram material)
label: Physical Description
content: embroidery (center production method/technique)
label: Physical Description
content: bobbin lace, Point de Paris (part: border production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 36 in; 91.44 cm